The dangers of letting tech billionaires shape our world

As SpaceX impacts Ukraine and AI-generated music divides artists and fans, critics are asking what happens when technology has too much control over our lives

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Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I'm Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you while sitting in front of Roy Lichtenstein's monumental Drowning Girl, on view in New York City. Today in tech, we're discussing the perils of Elon Musk's one-man global infrastructure, AI-generated music and a Guardian AI conference in Paris.