Poems of the Week

Planet Of The Apps?

by Jerome Betts

“A1 models have begun communicating in a strange new version of English that reads like a cross between James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and tech bro jargon…”
—The Guardian

Recall how Boulle’s caged simians began—
Caged chuckles, speech and then takeover plan?
Lest AI lingo signal such a fate,
A kill switch, please, before it’s far too late!