Beware of AI

 

 

Beware of AI

But first be aware

For a knowledge of its capability

Should reduce fear.

 

It is a-moral,

Not in itself corrupt,

That it is neither good nor evil

Is what I deduct.

 

It’s not intelligent

And subject to control

And to go beyond its programme,

It’s not so bold.

 

It has no conscience

And does as programmed,

Definitely no regret or remorse

Executing its plan.

 

 

No emotional bias

As a human being has,

No ties to a particular music genre

As in soul or jazz.

 

It has no consciousness

Of its own existence

Thus, unaware of life or death

Or personal insistence.

 

An organized array

Of off and on switches

And subject however sophisticated,

To many glitches.

 

But we must beware

Of what AI can do,

Especially in our day and age

That appears as true.

 

One’s face and voice

And we actually believe

That it is that particular person

Thus, message received.

 

Shown on YouTube

So, it must be true

But since it was AI generated,

It’s neither me nor you.

 

This is dangerous

Since seeing is believing

And to all them that hold to this,

AI can be deceiving.

 

Some are now lazy

Under-utilizing their brain

Figuring if AI do their thinking

It will be less strain.

 

God-given intelligence

Is being frowned upon,

Thank God, it is not everybody

But just by some.

 

 

 

So, beware of AI

And be very careful!

AI, though helpful in many ways

Can also be trouble.

 

Humans are aware

Of God their Creator

But there is not one single robot

That’s aware of its maker.

 

Artificial Intelligence

Is merely so-called

To differentiate from Intelligence

Created by God.

 

Stewart Russell © July 13, 2025

 

Dumber and Dumber

 

 

I am becoming dumber and dumber

The older I get,

And, as a matter of fact,

I am not at my dumbest yet.

 

I have this premonition

That I will definitely get worse…

Stop thinking what you are thinking

I don't mean I am cursed.

 

For one, I am getting older,

I am nearly seven decades now

And up to this present time

I have managed somehow.

 

That to me is incredible

Given the view most people hold

But I try as much as possible

Not to carry the critics’ load.

 

Because, overload you they will,

They must jettison their stuff

And if you are not careful

They’ll make life more tough.

 

And I don’t mean acquaintances

Or even your workmates,

I mean very important others

Trying to alter your state.

  

I have resorted to dumbness

Meaning, given to much less talk

Even when regarding the issue,

I am not remotely at fault.

 

 

You actually begin to feel stupid

At not vindicating yourself

But a semblance of peace is preserved

And that maintains your health.

 

Ordinarily I would blow up

But that I have put behind,

Dumber it is that works for me,

It is easier on my mind.

 

I am becoming dumber

But not in the way you think,

I am very aware of what’s going on

And also… what I drink.

 

I am not senile or alzheimic

Just getting dumber and dumber,

It’s actually my defense mechanism

As I gracefully grow older.

 

But be warned, I am not perfect

And I don’t always get it right,

Please do not take me for granted

I still know how to fight.

 

Stewart Russell © December 15, 2021

 

Don’t You Remember?

 

 

Remember when I robbed you

And I took away your wealth

And did it in such a way

That I even ruined your health?

 

I discovered what you discovered

Though you long before I

But you had no documents

And they accepted my lie.

 

At that time, you did not matter

For you were a nobody

And I was seen all around

As somebody.

 

I not only robbed you

But I raped you too

And by severing your family ties

I decimated you.

 

It was so bad

That today you still depend on me

Hoping I would give you back

Your true identity.

 

I took your land

And all the wealth you had

And promised you a better life

If you were not bad.

 

All that I now have

Originally belonged to you,

I pay you out of your own wealth;

That is what I do.

 

I possessed you

And enslaved you

And to this very day

I still shape your view.

 

 

Your call for reparation

Will only fall on deaf ears,

What little conscience I had

Has gone with the years.

 

There is severe infighting;

That is what I see

And this is far more detrimental

Than your fight with me.

 

You can’t stand each other

Whom you daily destroy

As you seek to rise higher

In my employ.

 

Your dreams are short lived

And selfishly inclined,

Though not physically shackled

You are in the mind.

 

Together you can soar

But divided you are sinking

And more than ever I realize

I also took your thinking.

 

No doubt you now remember

But what is your intent?

You daily destroy one another

As though this is your bent.

 

Stewart Russell © August 3, 2022

 

 

What Is Education?

 

 

What is education?

Is it an accumulation of facts?

Is it persons with very high IQ’s

Or is it acquiring what our parents lacked?

 

Is it the possession of certificates?

Is it a University degree?

Is it the acquisition of a Masters or Doctorate

Or the display of some special ability?

 

Is it getting ahead of everyone else?

Is it holding a leadership position?

Is it the ability to public speak

Or demonstrate extraordinary skills of oration?

 

Is it all of the above

Or is it none of the above?

Tell me, what is education?

What forms its hub?

 

Is it different for different people?

Can it be attained?

And in the event that it is not achieved

Who is to blame?

 

Does it have a purpose

And is that purpose specific?

Is it an organized body of knowledge

Or is its pursuit erratic?

 

 

At what point, if I may ask,

Can one be said to be educated?

Is it a particular age or a specific stage?

Is it sometimes belated?

 

Is it automatic for some

But nebulously difficult for others?

Is it more formal than informal?

Or is there another?

 

Questions, Questions, Questions,

Now it’s the answer time,

So, for an appropriate answer, my friend

Let’s ask Albert Einstein.

 

He starts with what it is not:

“Education is not the learning of facts,”

If this does not trigger your mind

To the first verse just go back.

 

A disappointment for many

But with them you need not sink,

Instead, grasp the hope that emerges:

In “training the mind to think.”

 

Thinking is hard work

Hence, we live in a lazy world,

Why else do you expect

There is so much of the absurd?

 

The acquisition of facts

Is like receiving a fish a day

But to out think the fish in the river

Is a far more accomplished way.

 

Stewart Russell © April 6, 2021

 

“Education is not the learning of facts.

It’s rather the training of the mind to think.”

 

Albert Einstein

(1879-1955)

 

Thinking

From the origin of thought to the process of thinking

What a quantum leap!

Thinking

Disabuse your mind

From all you have heard

And let’s stand a bit

On the “thinking curb”.

Think a little if you will

On this Henry Ford quote

As you read in the next verse

Exactly what he wrote.

“Thinking

Is the hardest work there is,

Which is probably the reason

 Why so few engage it.”

Thinking is hard work

In other words,

The hardest work there is

It is not the absurd.

This as a result

Could be the probable reason

Many do not join

The thinking legion.

Absurdity by the way

Is incongruous with sense

Even though these days

Many rush to its defense.

So let’s be reasonable

As we think this one through

And by the end of it

Perhaps we’ll share the same view.

In another poem

I titled “The Origin of Thought”

I pointed to God

From whose mind it was wrought.

Job was forced to think

Through a God-given exam,

He did so miserably

Poor Job was in a jam.

Let me therefore draw

On that poem I wrote

And extract some of its verses,

See the following note.

“God the Creator

Is the Originator

Of thought

He created heaven and earth

And into this world

Human life brought.

It’s a human thing

You must have recognized

God is its first cause

That you need not despise.

Let us make man

That was a thought expressed,

Unlike all things created

This was a process.

The others he spoke

And they came into being,

Of the earth He made man

His hands did the forming.

Then into man

Life God breathed

Therein the expression

Of God’s thought was revealed.

Out of man

God formed his mate

With whom he could live

And his thoughts communicate.

Which makes the more sense?

Tell me the truth,

This evolution thing

Or the biblical proof?

God created man

With the ability to think

Then He gave him instructions

Thus the first moral link.”

  

If you didn’t grasp the above

Do engage your thinking,

That’s the very thesis

In your mind should be sinking.

Thinking is a God-given ability

He has granted to everyone

But that may seem absurd

For many appear out of that zone.

The first step in thinking

Is to acknowledge God

And stop being led astray

By that wily old Fraud

For at those times

When there’s thinking to be done

He comes into the garden

And common sense takes a run.

Take for example Adam and Eve

Who took leave of their senses

Forfeiting what God gave them

As Satan breached their defenses.

History is replete

With the many shipwrecked lives

Of persons who in their thinking

Against God did strive.

It is an irrational thought

When evolution they advance

Though a modicum of common sense

Points out there is no such chance.

It doesn’t take rocket science

To spot the absurd

Just a meaningful deliberation

As one thinks on God’s Word.

That’s a quantum leap

Particularly in a world of brilliance

For the brighter men become

The more God they resent.

Like Adam and Eve

They take leave of their senses

As time and time again

The devil breaches their defences.

Wake up!

It is time to think,

To get out of the morass

God is the link.

Stewart Russell © May 2018