Yuval Sharon has been thinking a lot lately about artificial intelligence and its effect on opera. “Most of the opera world thinks that AI is going to help us with ticket sales and marketing copy,” notes the artistic director of Detroit Opera, known well for his unconventional stagings of inherited repertoire. “But what about the art?” he continues. “Opera is always responsive to technological innovations — how can we pretend that AI isn’t going to encroach on the art we create?”