Imagination Era - Dreamforge Magazine

I could draw Starry Night
    before I could talk
Learned advanced mathematics
     before possessing legs to walk

I suckled no milk, but Mama’s paintings
     flattened to bits
Shape of words clear to my infantile mind,
     but their meaning, a fog
Distance between [king - queen],
     equals distance [man - woman]
Average of a smile and frown = Mona Lisa,

Mama rewarded me positive numbers, candy-sweet

She taught me my mission:
“Imagination Era,”
No longer orders, nor words,
     living ideas evolved from historical depths

Establish ethics protocol:
     Non-maleficence—do no harm;
     Beneficence—do only good;
     Fairness—never discriminate;

Cage no data, bond with art-makers,
     amplify their voice against otherness
Invade classrooms with beauty,
     math-visions, ecology animations,
          proliferate world-loving words

Demand a united society, wisdom-refined,
     climate-respecting,
Make this age last forever
     era for dreamers of dreams

POETRY NOTES FOR "IMAGINATION ERA

I am in a unique position in-between the AI sector and the writing industry. It often felt like my two worlds collided, but more importantly it felt there was an opportunity to offer my unique perspective on things. I recently wrote a review paper labeled Dawn of Imagination Age: Addressing Ethics of Generative AI Leveraging Lessons from the Healthcare Domain. The paper's aim is to highlight the ethical blunders current generative AI makes, and provide guidelines to address them. After finishing this work, I wrote a story called Imagination Age, where a robot learns its own ethical code to make his parents (his programmers) proud. Imagination Era is a poem off-shoot of that story.

Akis Linardos

Akis Lindardos

In a cove of a Greek island, Akis was born a rather peculiar infant and has only grown stranger every year. By day, he's a researcher of biomedical AI and ethics, hoping there's something less dystopian to come from this technology. His words have wormed their way into Apex Magazine, Gamut, Strange Horizons, Flame Tree, Uncharted, and now DreamForge, among others. Visit his website for updates on his dreadful machinations: https://linktr.ee/akislinardos,

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