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None of the tech oligarchs currently promoting AI technology are even trying to pretend its impact will be gentle or gradual. If anything, most are positively effusive about how quickly it will render everything else—right down to people themselves—obsolete throughout a host of vital industries and in the arts. It’s the kind of moment that invites a familiar concept: creative destruction. I originally associated the phrase with Joseph Schumpeter, but it actually has its origins in Karl Marx. In the latter’s work, it referred to the ingrained tendency of capitalism toward...