These AIs cross into dangerous territory, threatening to render the English language into lexical pink slime. For simple phrases like “on my way,” QuickType works perfectly, and for more complex phrases, its suggestions are often good enough. But that seemingly unimportant difference between the words QuickType suggests and the words you may have otherwise chosen is significant indeed. To put it bluntly, when you use Smart Reply, you are effectively voting for your own agency to be automated away. If tools like Smart Reply gain more traction, our daily communications will become perverted Turing Tests for which we didn’t volunteer.