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One of the more common arguments you get from people who imagine themselves broad-mindedly neutral about AI is, Won't it just make current tools a little better—better word processors, spreadsheets, etc., while adding some new tools to the mix, like for creating images that we can use in the preceding tools?

That is a remarkable failure of imagination, like the people early in the PC revolution who thought PCs would never catch on because people weren't likely to all become software engineers writing code. People get trapped in thinking about paving existing cowpaths, rather than re-imagining the existence of such paths altogether.