She is bowing before an artificially intelligent machine, seeking a certification that she is human. At the time, Altman had just stepped down as president of Y Combinator to head OpenAI; Blania had dropped out of graduate school at Caltech. If you’re not, you’re going to be pretty sure you’re not. If you were forced to guess, the odds would tell you to guess robot, because at this point there are more bots online than people. I once asked a customer-service representative calling herself Crystal S. if she could prove to me that she was human, and she told me that she lived in Texas and had three daughters and two French bulldogs named Benny and Smoltz.