When should artists get paid in a world with AI music? Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories! Artificial intelligence is changing how music gets made - and how musicians get paid. AI is letting people clone artists’ voices, create completely new songs as fake collaborations, generate lyrics in seconds, even produce full tracks just by typing in a few words. It’s all causing some to say AI will be “the death of music.” Technology causes turning points in history. And I think we’re in one right now for music. The stakes are high: If we get this wrong, we could jeopardize how human musicians make money and art. But if we get it right, we have an opportunity to leap ahead in how we as humans get to express ourselves. To really understand what’s happening with AI music, you need to understand how the music industry ALREADY works - and how it could be changing. In this video, I took a deep dive into that topic with the help of two people right in the thick of it: The artist Grimes and CEO of Spotify Daniel Ek. Chapters: 00:00 What is happening with AI in music? 02:05 Why would we want AI music? 04:03 How are musicians using AI? 06:17 When should musicians get paid? 07:15 What is copying versus inspiration? 08:26 How does copyright work in music? 10:06 Should artists get paid for AI training on their music? 11:55 What happens when AI generates its own songs? 12:54 How could AI music be "huge if true"?