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This column is part of The AI Future You Want, a series about the global questions that are shaping artificial intelligence.

Björn Ulvaeus, the legendary songwriter and one-quarter of the famed Swedish pop group ABBA, is staunchly pro-artificial intelligence. “It’s like an extension of my mind,” he says. “To be a Luddite in this is just crazy. It is here.”

Ulvaeus is using AI tools to help him write a new musical. He has used them to simulate how his new work might sound with different styles of vocalists or when played by an orchestra, refining his compositions based ...