BlueSky Thinking Summary

The article considers the impact artificial intelligence is likely to have on creative industries—music, above all.

It identifies some recent developments where AI was able to produce music similar to that of popular artists like Drake and reinterpret Paul McCartney's classic with eerily realistic renditions.

This discussion goes beyond novelty because, in reality, a game-changer was discovered for the music business—at least for the roles developed within it, starting from the artists themselves all through labels and distributors.

Paralleling many of the very debates going on in other creative fields like Hollywood today, where AI's place there is similarly contentious, this article raises important questions about the future of creativity and innovation set against a world increasingly dominated by AI.

It concludes with the reflection that, for the future of humanity's creativity, it will be important to have leadership entrenched with thought if AI does not irreversibly set human activity on another course.

The traditional boundary between artificial and real creativity has become somewhat blurred in recent times, and it is during this moment that the creative class adapts to, yet resists, the changes that AI dishes out.