How do we respond to a world increasingly controlled by AI?

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Somewhere in the climax of 20th Century Studios’ The Devil Wears Prada 2, the film’s central tension crystallises in a charged exchange between its antiheroine, Miranda Priestly, and tech billionaire Benji Barnes. Meryl Streep’s fashion empress, draped in iridescent, jewel-encrusted Armani  Privè so stunning my jaw practically dropped into my popcorn bucket, fights for all that is beautiful, artistic and distinctly human in fashion. “Commitment to beauty, artistry, the best in human achievement maybe?” she argues, defending Runway, the magazine she has lived, breathed and sacrificed for. Across from her, Justin Theroux’s Benji answers with the smug fatalism only billions of dollars can buy: “The world is about to change. That’s what human beings don’t understand…One day it’s just gonna come and it’s gonna smother us all. Maybe that’s the way it has to be.”