‘We have to adapt or die’: Daniel Bedingfield says AI is music’s future

Exclusive: Gotta Get Thru This singer argues that neo-luddites' risk being left behind as technology develops

The growing use of artificial intelligence in the creative industries has been described as an existential threat to jobs and artistic integrity. Earlier this year artists including Billie Eilish and Katy Perry signed an open letter urging tech companies not to sabotage creativity", while Nick Cave has called lyrics written by ChatGPT a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human". But according to the musician Daniel Bedingfield, AI is music's future, and anyone who fights against it faces being left behind.

AI is now here for ever," he told the Guardian. And so I think that there will be two paths: there'll be the neo-luddite path, and then there'll be everyone else, most of the planet, who thinks the music's really good and enjoys it."