Immunity, 2225

By Hashmi-al-Haseeb Faisal

Gavelton, an old robot, was reconstructing a forgotten train in a museum. A journalist bot arrived with headlines of 15th September 2225: “Magazine lacks fibre for guts! The founder of Robotheism, first digital saint of Multan, India, redefined imperialism with AI brainwashing and turned waste into electricity through German garbage-eating fungi. Flying fish and city pigeons must be eradicated, for natural selection threatens us. Even genocide hides loopholes, as the last grandmother—final speaker of Earth’s last tongue—said prose and poetry are one.” Gavelton murmured, “Neuro-chips surpass smartphones, yet humans resist algorithms. Immunity—that is what terrifies us the most.”