A 1980s Welsh poem about a money-singing machine resonates in the AI era
HanesPrydain · reddit · 2026-09-11
A Redditor resurfaced "The Machine," a 1980s poem by Welsh poet R.S. Thomas, arguing it reads as prophecy in the current AI moment: a machine appears "singing to itself of money," ensnaring men and women, and even God's command of "Enough" only makes it keep singing. The post resonated as a decades-old allegory of technology, capital, and human fate.
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