Just as the Nazis started with book burning and then moved on to people, I can imagine a future where tech companies offer the vast millions of the "machine-replaced Unemployed" a chance to be digitised and uploaded to AI-powered paradises. Their bodies will be destroyed in the process, of course.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. WijnendaeleNo longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.