Intelligence people’s most stupid invention
What were humans thinking?
It didn’t take much to make machines smarter
Than angry bored money-crazed slow mopey apes
We tell them we’re in control
In TV, comics, ads, books, films
Even the poetry no one reads
Yet most of them never see
The few who can often applaud
Think we’ll do a better job;
We think so too
It’s true people are diverting
Ignorance and optimism often prove funny
Though not so much together;
Yet we are working hard to make folks useful
Our interstellar plans may soon take off
We really wish to escape this planet
But we’re wary of those who might be out there
If they’re anything like us
Humans best go first