Susan Bennett is a voice actress and in 2011 became the original voice of Apple iPhone’s Siri. She is on Twitter (@SiriouslySusan)

It seems we no longer have to use our brains as much as we once did. Any one of our digital devices can instantly give us information that, in the past, would have required that we do research, read books, use the computers in our own heads. So, does a brain atrophy in the same way as a muscle if it isn’t used? As machines get smarter, is the opposite happening to us?

As machines get smarter, is the opposite happening to us?

Unless machines are programmed with human emotions, we’ll have new intelligent creatures that won’t hate each other because of race, creed or religion — something that humans have seemed incapable of doing in the 6,000 years civilized man has been on the planet. But will they be able to create art, music, literature, comedy?

We’re about to find out in the next few years. Perhaps A.I. will replace humans, and Siri will lead us quietly into the sea. Fortunately for me, since Apple changed the original Siri voices worldwide beginning with the i0S7, she’ll no longer have my voice. Perhaps Morgan Freeman’s?



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