Towards a Poetics of Artificial Superintelligence#SymbolicLanguage #AIAI is the defining industrial and technical paradigm of the remainder of our lifetimes. You are, I am, we are all bound up and implicated in the future of artificial intelligence. Having better poetic language isn’t likely going to save us from being crushed or sidelined as a species. As we journey haplessly along towards the frontline of an intelligence explosion, the human self will be threatened, distributed, dispersed, over the limits of its taxed cognition. So the self should at least carry a flashlight in the dark. Developing language for the unknown, for the liminal spaces, will offer strategic advantages. Out of limits, being.