The buzz and anxiety around generative artificial intelligence is big right now, so we sat down with several prominent people in audio technology to talk about AI, art, and the future of music.

Creativity is about the removal of inhibition, fear, social anxiety, doubt, about creating and sharing something authentically yours. While AI might help as a medium for expression for some people that did not have access to that medium before, this opening of the gates is also used by people to signify talent through things that were once authentically someone else’s, or by the insecure, to remove all trace of self from communication and creation as a crux for anxiety. Pros and cons. People are people.