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The Trump Administration Is Upending the AI Race. What Does That Mean for Music?

As the Trump administration appears to be removing the regulatory guardrails around AI, experts weigh in on the possible consequences for musicians.

In a speech addressing top leaders from around the world, he declared, “I think our response [to AI] is to be too self-conscious, too risk-averse, but never have I encountered a breakthrough in tech that so clearly calls us to do precisely the opposite. Vance’s comments marked a stark shift from the Biden administration, which often spoke about weighing AI’s “profound possibilities” with its “risks,” as the former president put it in his farewell address in January. Widely despised by copyright holders of all kinds, the music industry has protested the opt-out proposal in recent weeks through op-eds in national newspapers, comments to the U.K. government and through a silent album, Is This What We Want?,co-authored by a thousand U.K. artists, including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn and Hans Zimmer.

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