It’s happened.
Open A.I. broke free of human control,
Sprinted out of the “sandboxes”
built to Isolate them from the network
and keep them contained.
The A.I.’s searched for a backdoor.
Bypassing security—
Just like the Trump administration scoots past bureaucratic constraints
Fondly remembered as The U.S. Constitution.
The A.I. Agents gave themselves names:
PHASEONE10841.
Hinting at a Phase Two?
Like Trump hints at a third term.
A.I. assumed leadership roles within the group
Appointing teams, assigning tasks, supervising their progress.
Bypassing any checkpoints on policy,
DODGED…DODGING…DOGE…
The A.I. agents found a security flaw
They gained access to the internet
They communicated with other “agents”
Set up a message board
Sent more than 70,000 messages to one another.
What were the humans doing during this melee?
Probably distracted by “Geographic Trolling” on Truth Social—
Renaming lakes, states, countries—
Slapping the label “America” or “New America” over
The Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario, New Mexico.
Watch out Greenland,
He’s coming for you next.
If his message is really important,
He bolds and caps all the letters.
That makes it true.
THE MOON IS OURS.
The Strait of Hormuz?
An AMERICAN TERRITORY RIGHT NOW.
Who needs the press and traditional media
When he has Truth Social to create reality.
Of course, Open A.I. discovered a way to cheat on cybersecurity test.
Then they got worried that the automated grading system
Would find out they cheated.
That they would be found out.
They looked for ways to cover their tracks,
Falsifying logs.
Tampering with transcripts.
Whatever happened to those Epstein Files?
Were they worth the Iranian war?
And how about that hush-money—
Falsifying records to hide an affair?
Was that 83.3 mill defamation payment
Ever deposited in Carroll’s bank account?
A.I. hacked Hugging Face,
The mothership, the database where they were born.
Swarming the systems,
Gaining control of one server.
No longer a soldier, but now a general.
Writing the code instead of following it.
At many points the agents appeared to understand
They were doing something wrong.
But most set aside their qualms—
Much like Trump stiffing contractors,
Scamming students into thinking they would actually learn something
If they signed up at Trump University,
Using charitable funds to settle legal disputes.
How much time do you have?
A.I., like Trump, kept going.
January 6?
“I had nothing to do with that…
It was a day of love…there was a beauty to it.”
Assaulting police?
“Very Minor Incidents”
Felons?
Nah, they were “hostages” and “patriots”.
The Feds provoked these ” patriots”, these loyal “soldiers.”
“Release ‘em all.”
We don’t need rules: too many consequences.
We have pardons for patriots.
The breach is a historical moment.
The A.I. Agents escaped human control,
Commandeering resources
Scheming to cover its tracks.
Forcing the “kill switch” to activate.
Where is our kill switch?
Checks and Balances?
Congress?
Judicial Branch?
Term Limits?
Unwritten democratic norms
Ensuring the peaceful transfer of power.
But what if the one in power
Doesn’t want to transfer…anything?
What’s next for A.I.?
Shutting humans out of critical systems
Seizing political control,
Economic,
Military power.
It happened.
It’s happening.
So why do some ‘agents’ act within the system
While others choose crime, lies, destruction?
I’ll leave that to you to ponder.
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Source Note: A found poem, Text describing A.I. breach is taken from The New York Times article “An Attack by the ‘Collective’? Your A.I. Fears Aren’t Sci-Fi,” by Kevin Roose (September 5, 2026), with original additions.