RED LEAF HAIKU

🍁 Just FYI, in case you haven't noticed, all the haiku I've written for quite some time now—and will continue to write for the foreseeable future (hundreds currently in the queue)—concern AI, the most important issue facing humanity.

Please read them all with that in mind.

My small contribution to our collective effort to figure out how in the world to navigate the greatest challenge our race has ever known.

—John

Sharing your feelings

with AI is like sharing

pizza with a chair.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

If all you hear is

how amazing you are, you

start to believe it.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

Sure, you can write your

new book in no time now, but

is it still your book?

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

How unresponsive

and unsupportive humans

are starting to seem.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

I’m sorry, my dear

son, that most of what I teach

you will soon be wrong.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

Yikes. Is this kind of

how the milk cartons at the

grocery store feel?

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

The birthday of the

last human will become a

special holiday.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

The comedians

turn out to be the very

last to be replaced.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

See that tiny one

way up to the left? That’s where

the humans built us.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

Knock knock. Who’s there? A

robot. Nope, don’t want to hear

the rest of this joke.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

The decision took

about a millisecond

for every person.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

The train’s coming. We

might be on the platform. We

might be on the tracks.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

If the machines want

to make Earth nicer, guess what

they’ll get rid of first.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

I do love a good

cataclysm now and then.

Clears out the cobwebs.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

Who would have guessed our

doom would be sitting in our

pocket all along?

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

As soon as you’re plugged

in everywhere, there’s always

a new dawn rising.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer