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Super Intelligence

When the Supreme Leader speaks, there is no Artificial Stupidity - only Super Intelligence.

Seven-panel cartoon: President Evil, in a blue suit and red tie, dismisses AI dangers while his cabinet is gradually replaced by Homo Silicus robots in suits, dresses and badly fitting wigs. A robot with a Brainless Intelligence badge invites him to order pizza using a red button whose crossed-out Launch All Nukes label remains visible.

Why this one bites

President Evil dismisses warnings about artificial intelligence as fake news and hoaxes, then announces his own replacement term: Super Intelligence. While he boasts about his intelligence and complains about the people around him, the human cabinet quietly gives way to Homo Silicus agents wearing formal clothes and conspicuously unconvincing wigs.

By the time he reaches the Oval Office desk, the replacement is complete. An agent wearing a Brainless Intelligence badge offers a helpful suggestion about lunch. The red button has acquired an Order Pizza label, but the crossed-out Launch All Nukes instruction remains plainly visible: changing the name has done nothing to change the danger.

Transcript

  • 1. PE addresses his human cabinet: “All these alarms about the dangers of AI? Fake news! Hoaxes!” 2. One cabinet member has been replaced by a Homo Silicus agent in a suit and an ill-fitting wig. PE: “There is NOTHING artificial about it!” 3. Two cabinet members are now disguised robots. PE: “From now on, we're calling it SUPER INTELLIGENCE. My new term!” 4. Three cabinet members are now disguised robots. PE: “And nobody knows more about being super intelligent than me.” 5. The entire cabinet has been replaced by robots in suits or dresses and badly fitting wigs. PE: “I'm so super intelligent. It's lonely at the top.” 6. PE: “Surrounded by talentless idiots. All the time!” The robots exchange looks as he turns toward his desk. 7. PE sits behind the Oval Office desk. A large red button sits in the middle. Its original label, “Launch All Nukes”, is crossed out but clearly visible below a crooked “Order Pizza” label. The pen cup reads S.M.R.T. The flag signs read PEOPLE (NOT ROBOTS). The speaking robot wears a red hat reading Make Androids Great Again and a “Brainless Intelligence” badge. It asks: “Boy, I'm hungry - would you like to order a pizza, Mr. President?”
  • The next time the world will end - it will be because the pizza arrived late