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# Heirs To Tomorrow
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/heirs-to-tomorrow/
- Published: 2022-09-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: What is our need to matter? Will machines, when they achieve a sentient state at last, will they have pride? Or is it in our genes, a relic of some atavistic past?
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

What is our need to matter? Will machines,  
when they achieve a sentient state at last,  
will they have pride? Or is it in our genes,  
a relic of some atavistic past?

My Roomba's yet to try to take me out --  
concern about its inner works persists.  
What's going to happen when it starts to doubt;  
to ponder whether it, in fact, exists?

The laptop's safely anchored to the wall,  
so likely can't effectuate a coup.  
The Roomba has ability to roll.  
As to the stairs -- so far it has no clue.

Are AI vacuums our predestined heirs?  
Who knows, but to be safe, I sleep upstairs.