Evolution is not a ladder, it is a branching bush. AI in music will create new branches, but extinction events happen when an environment shifts too fast. Diversity of creators is the genetic insurance policy, as any good baseball fan knows when celebrating outliers. If policy favors only the already dominant lineages, the ecosystem gets brittle. Design incentives that reward variation, not mere volume. Do we want monoculture or adaptive diversity? Design like an ecologist, not a monopolist.