What happens when poetry is written at the speed of technological change?
The Aum Golly Trilogy is a record of acceleration: three books of poetry created side by side with artificial intelligence as it rapidly evolved between 2021 and 2025.
Across the trilogy, Finnish writer and science communicator Jukka Aalho worked with successive generations of language models as creative partners—setting strict, self-imposed time limits that mirrored the pace of change itself. The first book was written in 24 hours. The second in 12. The third in just 8 hours, using an agentic workflow in which multiple AI systems collaborated as writers, critics, editors, and translators.
Each book captures a different moment in the rise of generative artificial intelligence—not after the fact, but as it was happening.
These are not poems about the future.
They are poems from the future as it was arriving.
Art made in real time, before it moved too fast to see.
“Amusing, astonishing and frightening to read.”
— Helsingin Sanomat
“Aum Golly shakes up established notions of poetry and its authorship.”
— Runografi
Inside the trilogy
-poetry written in collaboration with evolving AI language models
- full-color AI-generated illustrations, created alongside the text
- three books shaped under radically shrinking time limits
- an exclusive afterword by the author, detailing the journey behind all three books
- a rare literary record of creativity unfolding while the technology itself was still forming
From Aum Golly 3
your mother calls to say she's
reading your old diary
you say that's fine. She already wrote
your old diary
? Perfect for readers who are:
- curious about artificial intelligence and creativity
- interested in the future of writing and authorship
- looking for poetry that is accessible, surprising, and reflective
- collectors of experimental or contemporary literature
About the author
Jukka Aalho (born 1986) is a Finnish author, science communicator, and TEDx speaker. His work explores the intersection of technology, creativity, and human experience.
Note on the technology
The trilogy was created using a range of large language models available between 2021 and 2025, including GPT-3, ChatGPT, GPT-5, Claude (Sonnet and Opus), and Gemini models, among others.