Some research estimates that generating a typical e-mail using A.I. Consumes a bottle’s worth of water to siphon heat away from the data centers’ servers to separate cooling towers.

I will use any means necessary to achieve quality typography and clear communication,

The comforting tone of Altman and Ive’s pitch belies the enormous uncertainty of what their plan would unleash.

Altman and Ive are positioning their device as a solution to screen fatigue. They promise that their gadget will free us from technology, as evinced by their softly smiling faces in their joint portrait and the warmth and companionship of the café in which they conducted their video interview. But we will only get to this appealingly humane place, they imply, by adopting more technology—their technology.

If we all started using our personal A.I. Machines dozens of times a day, as we do our iPhones, the environmental toll of our personal technology would skyrocket—imagine something like turning every car on the road into a diesel truck. This, in turn, would warp the direction of global economies, requiring the construction of ever-larger data centers.

Imitation is the sincerest form of theft, and most every web author starts by stealing.

The little pendants around our necks will be a hundred million Trojan horses, smuggling A.I. Into every aspect of our lives.

The involvement of Ive invites inevitable comparisons with the iPhone, but this is not necessarily a compliment; to many of us, an iPhone of A.I. Sounds less like a utopian promise than like a threat that A.I. Will soon become ubiquitous and unavoidable.