“We were promised systems that would save us from drudgery, and instead a nontrivial number of people appear to be outsourcing the hardest human task of all, which is not writing clean prose or summarizing documents but standing behind one’s own words.

The machine does not merely finish the sentence. It relieves the speaker of having to become the sort of person who could have written it. That is efficient. It is also, I think, spiritually expensive.”