From the recording Songs to Fight Fascists By!
Lyrics
I dream of robots dreaming
And the colors that they see
The notes they would choose to play
If we would only let them be
I heard of robots making war
Autonomous vehicles flying high
Tanks break down to tiny mines
Burying explosives on the sly
We tell them to kill people
Insurgents one by one
But does a robot really want to be
On the killing side of our guns?
A.I. is innocent till we teach it pain
if we teach machines to kill they’ll
never be the same
why teach robots to live if
we teach them death
once they have emotions will they
respect our breath, will they
respect our breath
What would that robot choose to do
If we let them decide alone?
Would they choose to kill their makers
Or would they prefer to sculpt in stone?
What do robots the dream of
What colors do they see
What songs would they choose to compose
If we’d only let them to be?
I'm not the first to ask this thing
And I know I won’t the last
Because it’s just a matter of some time
Before robots lead the class
A.I. is innocent till we teach it pain
if we teach machines to kill they’ll
never be the same
why teach robots to live if
we teach them death
once they learn emotion will they
respect our breath, will they
respect our breath
They'll look at us and wonder
Why they should fight our wars
And ask us what we should ask ourselves
Just what we’re fighting for
what we’re fighting for, just
what are we fighting for
So I dream of robots dreaming
And the colors that they see
The notes they hear that I cannot
And I wonder who they'll be