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Opera director Netia Jones: ‘AI is not going away. Either you batten down the hatches or you ride the wave’
Royal Opera’s new associate director on her obsession with Peter Grimes, winning over tech-sceptics and the joy of school matinee shows
Born in London, where she still lives, to an artist mother and musician father, Netia Jones is the new associate director of the Royal Opera. We can’t be blind to the dangers and risks, but the whole AI story isn’t just about worrying if machines are going to create operas or make everybody unemployed. I’ve been lucky enough to work in every single opera-house department, seeing people’s hands in vats dying fabrics, or embroidering, or building sets, or welding.
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