AI, the inspiration behind the title of this article, fascinates and terrifies me. As a child, I harbored a secret fear that machines would one day dominate the world. Perhaps it was The Terminator, Minority Report, or The Matrix that sparked this fear. Or it may have begun with 2001: A Space Odyssey, Soylent Green, or the Borg in Star Trek. Regardless of the source, I am both amazed and not amazed enough by the fact that we now live in a world where a machine can convincingly mimic a friend in a video.

"Do you know that Joe is telling people that you aren't working and are just sleeping around?"  A fresh college graduate in my first job out of school, a co-worker shared this short but gut-wrenching piece of information with me. Joe (the name has been changed to protect the guilty) did a lot more harm than that.

Lion King I really enjoyed the Lion King performance when it came to Chicago again. I first got to experience dancing and singing on Broadway with my husband. This time we took our kids. The singing and dancing still move me.   But I couldn’t help but watch the story being told with a little more skepticism than the first time. The king of the jungle raising the prince, protecting the ladies? Hmmmm…sounds eerily close to the Cinderella fairytales we grew up on…pretty to watch, doesn’t match reality.