Every month a title is suggested, written below. Writers and poets are then invited to write up to a 500 word story or 30 line poem on this subject. The deadline is four weeks from the published date, so the deadline for the May 18 title will be June 18 and so on. The submissions are initially published on this website and then in a book.Send your submissions to tsaunderspubs@gmail.com and include Title in the subject bar and they will be published on this page. In time they will feature in their own book. Good luck!
May 18, 2023
Title: Artificial Intelligence….
AI, the latest, perhaps the most far-reaching change agent of our times.
Technology that threatens our purpose and place on this planet.
So many roles in so many industries and organisations about to be made redundant.
Replaced by chat bots and robots who have no human frailty and fallibility and who don’t go on strike, go off sick, or get pregnant.
Unable to compete with such an infallible rival, our adaptation to this threat is almost futile, given the lack of alternative occupations that we could reskill for and retain our stake in society.
Social media has already exacted significant societal change, but nothing in comparison to the wrecking ball of AI, which will bring about cataclysmic change.
We may well be already on the threshold of civilisation, as we have come to know and appreciate it, being redefined.
Our preparedness for this, is woefully inadequate.
Roger Knight
Title: Artificial Intelligence….
AI, the latest, perhaps the most far-reaching change agent of our times.
Technology that threatens our purpose and place on this planet.
So many roles in so many industries and organisations about to be made redundant.
Replaced by chat bots and robots who have no human frailty and fallibility and who don’t go on strike, go off sick, or get pregnant.
Unable to compete with such an infallible rival, our adaptation to this threat is almost futile, given the lack of alternative occupations that we could reskill for and retain our stake in society.
Social media has already exacted significant societal change, but nothing in comparison to the wrecking ball of AI, which will bring about cataclysmic change.
We may well be already on the threshold of civilisation, as we have come to know and appreciate it, being redefined.
Our preparedness for this, is woefully inadequate.
Roger Knight
