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Nothing in the evidence I've seen has convinced me as yet that these couldn't both be true, though. Obviously not in the "we create a machine god that builds a utopia for us or kills us" sense, but the more limited (and still very substantial) positive take on the possible utility of AI in industry. Like it seems entirely possible that AI will be a massive force multiplier in areas like drug research, software development, and pure math, and also overinvestment in AI in sectors where it turns out not to deliver any real results (and a bunch of layoffs of workers whose jobs AI doesn't actually replace all that well) will still result in a major global recession.

Also the new version has apparently inspired an opera (Monkey Christ), which is more than one can say for the original.

(Presently regretting my decision to look up fan art of Sulla from the Ciaphas Cain novels, who like, look. It's not as if those books have any shortage of good-looking women; both Amberley Vail and Colonel Kasteen routinely get described as beautiful, and there are a variety of less major characters in that vein as well. So I'm not really sure why we have to take the character who routinely gets described by the protagonist as lanky and horse-faced and make her look like Barbie. It's just less interesting when instead of representing the whole scope of humanity, you're basically consigning half the world to looking exactly the damn same except with different hair and skin colors.)