So, I open the message and read: “My dearest cousin Claudia. He replied with a laugh and confessed he had asked the bot to write something “beautiful, classy, and touching.” We need to accept that, very soon—if it hasn’t happened already—the bot is going to write infinitely better than you or me. The problem isn’t that the machine is getting smarter; the problem is that we are getting too lazy to think. But a written word carries weight.