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Earlier this year, while in Sacramento, California, an AI-powered robot made me a latte at a coffee shop near the state capitol building.

I found myself marveling in admiration at this new-fangled java-making machine, and yet, I was also a bit unnerved.

How neat that this machine was able to perform this multi-step task and hand me a made-to-order cup of joe. But is this gadget replacing a job that a human being could (and probably should) have? It would have been nice to have had more interaction with an actual human barista who, unlike the bot, has a face, a story, and is uniquely made in God’s image. I then wondered: Are these machines, remarkable as they are, depriving us of our humanity? And if so, do we even realize it?

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