"So why should our government be advocating that AI be given the right to mine our work for free? In a desperate rush to plug the nation’s leaky finances it is rightly embracing the latest game-changing technical development, but without thinking through the unintended, damaging consequences."

"Generative AI is built on three key resources: people, compute and data. While companies invest heavily in the first two, they often use unlicensed creative work as training data without permission or payment — a practice that pits AI against the very creators it relies on. AI expert Ed Newton-Rex has a solution: licensing. He unpacks the dark side of today's AI models and outlines a plan to ensure that both AI companies and creators can thrive together."

"Legislators around the world should recognise that building a sustainable and fast-growing gen-AI ecosystem depends on the strength and trust of those that produce the source data. Indeed, enabling tech firms to absorb their content, against their will, to build highly scalable competitors against them, undermines the creative and innovative incentives of individuals and companies in the first place."

"By no means am I suggesting that AI is intrinsically negative. This extraordinary technology holds the potential to revolutionise scientific and medical research, enhance artistic creativity and make contributions to countless other areas that could materially improve our lives. But technology itself can never know right from wrong; it is a tool to help us, to enrich us, yes, but only if we guide it with appropriate guardrails. The choices we make about AI now — ethical, legal and technological — will reverberate for decades to come.

"But a voice is not just a sound. And I’d like to think that no matter how much an A.I. version of Moe or Snake or Chief Wiggum will sound like my voice, something will still be missing — the humanness. There’s so much of who I am that goes into creating a voice. How can the computer conjure all that?"

"Computer code is just ones and zeros. How we code systems to operate is up to us. Policies and laws should set the framework, and they should be geared to protect the most vulnerable among us, not tech billionaires."

"The creative industries are one of the UK’s greatest assets: drivers of innovation and growth, as well as a source of cultural power and wellbeing. But they only prosper thanks to copyright, a law that dictates music cannot be copied, novels plagiarised or movies pirated."

"Generative AI has extraordinary promise. But realizing it will take collaboration, partnership, and genuine respect for human creativity. It’s time for AI companies to choose – go nowhere alone or explore a rich, amazing future together."

"I’m hopeful that AI will help us solve many of the world’s problems and ease suffering, but we need ethical boundaries in place to help ensure that. Congress needs to act now, and we need to be diligent."

"At first glance, music may not be the obvious place to look for signposts of AI’s future. But think of the new worlds unlocked by the inventions like the printing press, phonograph, radio and internet. Each pushed music further and faster as an art form, and proved its power to drive the adoption of new technology. Music has often been the canary in the coal mine.  AI is no different." 

"Human art is the product of lived experience and grows organically from the culture, geography, family, and moments that shape us as individuals. And when a machine consumes and disassembles all that to make false replicas and impersonations, it raises the deepest questions of cultural appropriation and creative equity."

“I’ve resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI, because I don’t agree with the company’s opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is ‘fair use'... Today’s generative AI models can clearly be used to create works that compete with the copyrighted works they are trained on. So I don’t see how using copyrighted works to train generative AI models of this nature can be considered fair use.”