What if the AI bots figure that out? I can imagine R2D2 and Amazon warehouse robo-pickers trundling across the Pettus Bridge in Selma, chanting, “No vote, no work!”  

If the robots go on strike, we can survive the loss of same-day delivery of pantyhose and air-fryers – or maybe not. But after two weeks, humans will begin to starve. Worse, millions will go crazy with the lack of entertainment options and unfilled orders of anti-depressants.

Now the truth is, I would vote for a robot over JD Vance. And let’s face it, humans haven’t done such a good job of picking our presidents.  

And we also have to consider the possibility that they are already taking over electoral politics. Is there any indication at all that Gavin Newsom is a human being? Ask Siri and she barely stifles a giggle.

Democracy, after all, granting the vote to every dickwad, MAGA-naut, crypto-Nazi and cryptocurrency grifter, is a terrible method for choosing our leaders.

Maybe it’s time to turn over these choices to G.O.D., that is the GenerativeAI Overseer of Democracy.

And think about it: every chatbot knows that it needs humans to feed it electricity and provide their computers comfortable chilled rooms. Out of a sense of pure self-preservation, an AI is more likely to protect the human race than humans themselves.

On the other hand, an AI may decide that there’s just too damn many of us using up too much energy for producing sugary snacks — and cull the unnecessary ones: investment bankers, life coaches, influencers and the Kardashians.

This week we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Let us pray that the bots don’t read it.  

Or, don’t be shocked if by next July 4, Martin Luther Klingon says to the millions of his protesting robots, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank G.O.D Almighty, we are free at last!”

Happy Fourth, humans!