Three paths forward, each challenging what we value most.Photo by Josh Johnson on UnsplashI suspect artificial intelligence may eventually accomplish what generations of socialists have struggled to achieve. And the irony is that capitalism may ultimately be responsible for making it happen.I say this as someone whose political instincts lean libertarian. I have never been particularly enthusiastic about government-supplemented incomes, wealth redistribution, or expanding the state’s role in economic life. Yet the more I consider the potential consequences of artificial intelligence, the more I find myself confronting this uncomfortable possibility.The economic arrangements I have long defended, particularly free markets and the principle of individual economic independence, may become difficult to sustain, not because their underlying principles have been disproven, but because the...