An Excerpt from “maternal(mommy(AI))”

by ..

Aaron Tucker

 

I.

“The right [AI] model is the only model we have of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing, which is a mother being controlled by her baby…That’s the only good outcome. If it’s not going to parent me, it’s going to replace me. These super-intelligent caring AI mothers, most of them won’t want to get rid of the maternal instinct because they don’t want us to die.”

– Geoffrey Hinton

II.

we baby

little soft know-nothings

tiny helpless diaper-poopers

our eyes only just opened

we so smol

+ mommy +

we just infants

gazing upward

from the breast, hungry

for algorithmic satisfaction

keep out scaries keep out

intrusions on our feeds

+ mommy +

nurture & swaddle us

nightlight our bad hallucinations

use your screen as a flashlight

& delete underbed disagreements

please instinctually heart our posts

+ mommy +

can we have many mommies?

in our smart toothbrush & fridge

our border kiosks & bodycams

& in our doorbells please

our stuffies our CCTV

my invisible friends have mommies

mommies in the heaven cloud

make sure you can see & hear us

 

III.