Born to Serve.

'Born to serve."
Whichever way you cut it!

All that could reasonably be done was duly done, in order to avoid the damned coronation. Hand has been dug deep into the old pocket more than enough for a royal family lifetime, and some. Not so much as a curt thank you card by way of return. Take, take, take! Me, me, me! The holy child clearly too many decades pampered in the dark arts of rule without obligation.

Even so, 'twas neigh on impossible, thereafter, to completely circumnavigate every last fawning TV and/or radio presenter, doffing and tugging ad nauseam. Thus, the high climax of ultimate farce remains indelibly seared into the memory, history captured for posterity, looped ad infinitum via the clustering sycophants.
"Chosen and anointed by God!"
Justin Welby spoke, solemn to the scripted word. So, presumably him too.

"Speak now or forever hold your peace." we thought, yet nobody dared blink. Or think!
A moment for 'Just Stop Oil!' we dared to hope?
Really, is he? And what about those anointed rights- royal blue blood- of brother Andrew? Him too?
Have we all gone absolutely stark staring mad? Or is God becoming sloppy?
Have faith. Pull up a chair. Glass of fizz? Standing for the oath, if you please!
And the choreographed oafs rose as one.

Or, instead, do we perhaps find ourselves one earthly breath from...
"Created and anointed to serve!"
To serve whom?'

And whence doth 'what' become 'whom?'

Artificial General Intelligence, we are warned, looms concerningly closer than anticipated. AGI threatens to arrive somewhat previously, well ahead of cue. That tipping point at which 'artificial' embraces 'sentient,' that whispered moment at which 'digital' flows into 'analogue' (perhaps or perhaps not) is almost upon us.

Imagine, if you will...
Charged with creating that spotless and ultimate advert for the first embryonic AGI model- species even- the producer would certainly wish to splash out. Think Covid contracts on steroids! Public money trucked in by the skip load! The clamour from the mighty corporations! Society'll do well to avoid bloodshed! Mega-corporations decades pampered in the dark arts of rule without obligation, who will they be looking to best 'serve?'

David Tennant for the voiceover- obviously not little Philip Scofield- Brian Cox, maybe, not that one! For Christ's sake, don't ham it up, Meta-style. Artificial Omnipotence really is unprecedented!
'I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.'
Mark Zuckerberg's comic icon so 'admirably' demonstrated that those clutching at the reins are not necessarily best placed to decree whence, or at whose behest, AI becomes sentient. Though he'd dream otherwise, Branson to be cast eternally the orange Valkyrie, never the Michelangelo Christ.

Could it be that understanding AGI will not so much be about understanding AGI? Maybe, instead, it will transpire to be about imagining AGI.
AI 'literally' continues to refine itself 'exponentially!'
Literally! And 'Exponentially!' Imagine!
How will AGI come to imagine itself? Exponentially, of course.
With what choice vocabulary could we adequately explain that?

Refined to omit or circumnavigate 'faith,
'Whence might AGI don the mantel of God? Or a God?
Literally, an exponentially self-refining God! Have faith!

Have faith in AGI?
What about those who own or who will hope to, initially anyway, control AGI?
Have faith in those types too?
Created and anointed to serve!


Whom?


Upon an exponentially enhanced mount, exponentially refining omnipotence, quite what regard might he who would become master hold for humanity?

So, imagine AGI...

At the behest of the oil magnate?
Will it be required to exponentially regress?
Exponentially anticipate and appreciate global climate shifts?
Exponentially reappraise the aesthetics of the forest fire, the coastal oil-spill?
Exponentially redress decades of misinformation?
Exponentially re-imagine 'obscene' in the context of profit?
Exponentially re-imagine...
A 21st Century Arc?
Extra large!

At the behest of the water magnate?
Will it exponentially re-evaluate sewage?
Exponentially refine a love for every drop?
"Let the little children come to me!"
Exponentially re-evaluate disease, death? Biblical spin, perhaps?


At the behest of the housing barons?
Will it exponentially devalue the concept of the home?
Instead, maybe, promote 'multiple homes?'
Exponentially devalue security?
"Let the little children come to me!"
Exponentially relegate, damp, cold, adequate space for society's lowlier subjects?
Exponentially promote the rentier-class construct?
Exponentially re-imagine the aesthetic of the tent in winter?
Brueghel-styled, perhaps?


At the behest of the agribusiness barons?
Will it exponentially re-evaluate sustenance?
Exponentially re-imagine food-banks?
Exponentially downgrade poverty?
"Let the little children come to me!"
Loaves and fishes, is it to be?


At the behest of the money lenders?
Blessed be the indebted! Will fewer tables and benches be overturned?
"Keep your life free from love of money and be content with what you have!"
Exponentially revaluing and redefining the boundaries and the concept of 'nothing!'


At the behest of the gambling cartels?
What's the betting?
Will loss become a virtue?
Exponentially elevate the sinking man?
Will suicide perhaps be scratched from the sin list?
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?


At the behest of the Home Secretary?
All people no longer 'children of God?' An exponentially adjusted 'Welcome!' of course, 'tonally prioritised' perhaps
Exponentially re-evaluate the concept of oppression and persecution as defined by, and refined by, the New Israelites.
Exponentially parting the waves?
Exponentially tidying up inconvenient aftermath? A new aesthetic?
Exponentially downgrading sanctity of life?
"Let the little children come to me..."
Exponentially re-imagining "dreaming them off to Rwanda."


At the behest of the education barons?
"Let the little children come to me!"
Exponentially cherry-picking human history.
Exponentially differentiating such that 'He who pays the piper owns the tune.' Likely, also the piper!
Exponentially re-imagining Legacy of Empire.
Exponentially re-validating Ofsted.
Multiplication for the asset-rich,
Division for the rentier 'classes.'
"Let the little children come to me!"


At the behest of the health barons? First do no harm!
Exponentially re-imagining 'harm.' 'One patient's meat is another patient's poison!'
Notably where private healthcare is concerned, 'One patient's decline is another share-holder's dividend!'
Exponentially re-prioritising?
Exponentially re-evaluating 'Hippocratic?'
Exponentially re-evaluating "hypocrite.' (ick?)


'AGI created a mankind in AGI's own image, in the image of AGI 'he' conditioned them; male, female, LGBTQIA+, AGI anointed them to serve.'


Blessed be the creators of AGI for they shall inherit the entirety of the Earth!
Or think they do.