The development of artificial intelligence may be the most significant scientific breakthrough since the atom was first split. Heretofore, such stuff has been the province of science fiction. Now that it’s fact, it’s scary because it has the potential to change everything, including how we think. As is usually the case with change of this scale, that’s predictable. AI’s arrival as something more than a futuristic notion is generating a climate of fear the guardians of the status quo have tapped into and spread, driving the narrative that the only wise course for us is to leave them in charge,…