Governments and tech moguls have bet hundreds of billions on artificial intelligence. If the technology does what it promises, we will have to radically rethink how the global economy functions.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings. … Power can be resisted and changed by human beings; resistance and change often begin in art
For most people it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
And art is being destroyed by AI
Those are very different things though.
And one can argue that how people imagine the end of the world is probably shaped works of art/media.