Success in Write4Fun Competition

Congratulations Oscar Kanaley (9HS) has been awarded 2nd place in the Write4Fun, ‘Poetry & Short Story Writing Competition 2020’.  This is an outstanding achievement with over 7000 entries into the competition.  Oscar’s poem, A.I., is about our rapid development in artificial intelligence, and suggests that we are more cautious as we delve further into this branch of technology.

Pictured: Oscar reading A.I. at Head Master’s assembly.

A.I.

We’ve turned our planet into a machine,
A processing plant for human beings,
We’re building things previously unseen,
Without seeing,
The implications, the indications,
Following fascinations,
Without thought for our nations.
We’re coming closer to a human eradication,
We’re delving too far into information
Technology,
We don’t know what we’re doing, we can’t see,
We’re blind,
Coming closer to deleting our country.
As we rhyme,
We’re coming closer to the end of our time,
A.I. should be a crime.