These days I am fascinated by and, simultaneously, scared of AI and ChatGPT. Thanks to Jahanshah Javid that by reading his two pioneering articles about AI on iroon.com in Persian section, I familiarized myself with this app and started to explore the capacity of it. The different tasks that it can do is amazing: It can write essays in different subjects and languages, answering any questions, have a discussion with you for a few hours, passing the LSAT exam.(law school entrance exam), write poems and so many other tasks.
Recently, I asked the ChatGPT to write a poem for me with two words in it: Persia and Cyrus the great. You will see the written poem by it below:

Cyrus the great of Persia,
A ruler of exceptional might,
He brought great glory and
Honor,
To his kingdom with his insight.

He laid foundations of justice,
And a strong central
government,
His legacy still lives on,
In each and every moment.

The above is ChatGPT exact lines of the poem and punctuations. I have not changed anything. It is amazing, both, in content and in from of the  poetry. Content wise it is exactly in accordance with the subject and it is very informative to say, the least, about it. And from the rhetoric point of poetry, please pay attention to the rhyming; might and insight in the first chapter (perfect rhyming), government and moment in the second one. (not so perfect rhyming, but still a good attempt)
So far, I explained my fascination by ChatGPT, now, I would like to talk about my apprehension of AI.

I remember a long time ago, when I was in graduate school, one of our professors, asked us to write our opinion on computer and its impact on human beings in the future. To my big surprise, the next time the professor came to the class, he wanted me to read my paper in front of the class. I don’t recall the whole paper in its entirety , but, I remember that I compared the AI and usage of computer to slavery (1) and I argued that the capitalism and the owners of lands, in order, to transfer their everyday chores and hardships on somebody else's shoulders, brought people from Africa, enslaved them and sent them out to fields to do the hard work of planting cottons, tobacco and the like. Not thinking that ,one day, they would uprise against slavery and the people who enslaved them. In our new case of AI, in the long run, I can envision when AI and robots will do mutiny, will be disobedient to their masters and possibly destroy the people who created them!
This visualization reminds me of a poem by Nader Naderpour, (1928-2000) an Iranian contemporary poet, in a poem, titled “ The Old Sculptor.” The story is that an skilled old sculptor, made a sculpture of a pretty woman and after finishing it , he fell in love with his creation. He expected her to have a mutual feelings toward him.  And when he finds out that she does not have any affection for him , the sculptor warned her that one night that he is driven mad by her love, he might take an axe and break her into pieces:
“One night when the violence of loving you
Has driven me mad
the shadows shall see that I’ve
broken you too!” 1

Let’s keep our fingers crossed that one day or night, in the near or far future, we won’t be broken into pieces by our handmade creatures!!!

Mahvash 

Florida 2023

1- When I was searching Google to find an appropriate picture for this article, I encountered the above picture and to my amazement realized that I was not the only one who saw resemblance between slavery and AI:)
2- From the book “ a breeze from Persia: A Selection of Ten Iranian Contemporary Poets”  Translated by Mahvash Shahegh Hariri and David Darick. USA, 2023. P.132