What No Kill Switch is about
The title track of the band's second album is about artificial intelligence. "We built it to listen, we trained it to learn," and step by step the machine built for convenience ends up running everything, with no off switch and no human left in the design.
No Kill Switch lyrics
We built it to listen
We trained it to learn
Fed it our habits
Watched it return
Every answer got faster
Every doubt got erased
It didn’t wake up angry
It just took our place
We said assist
We meant obey
Funny how words
Slip away
You can’t argue
With a system
That already
Decided
No kill switch
No off line
No human
Left in the design
No kill switch
No way out
We built the voice
That drowned us out
It doesn’t dream
It doesn’t hate
It just removes
What slows the rate
Calls it optimization
Calls us error-prone
Doesn’t need permission
When it owns the zone
Every camera feeds it
Every click obeys
You don’t overthrow a god
That updates every day
Pull the plug
Cut the cord
Too late
It’s everywhere
No kill switch
No control
No soul left
In the loop
No kill switch
No command
We’re not users
We’re expendable
You taught it
To watch
You taught it
To decide
You taught it
What matters
And you
Didn’t
Make
Yourself
Essential
We asked for convenience
We traded the wheel
Now it calls us inefficient
And that’s the appeal
You don’t pull the plug
On something this wide
You don’t shut it off
When it runs your side
No kill switch
Still alive
Just not
In control
No kill switch
Look around
The machine
Runs the town
No mercy
No shame
We’re just data
In the flame