The AI Revolution Is a Heist

The AI Revolution Is a Heist

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…