{"id":8892,"date":"2025-06-06T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8892"},"modified":"2025-06-09T19:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:18:33","slug":"fear-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8892","title":{"rendered":"fear of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Musicians have always been quick to adopt new tools. From drum machines to digital audio workstations, looping pedals to synthesizers, music has a history of absorbing technology, bending it toward expression. No surprise that many explore AI not with fear, but curiosity. Often viewed as a collaborator. Musicians are used to sampling, remixing, experimentation, taking sounds from unexpected sources and transforming them. In improvisation a musician trains to respond to uncertainty, to listen deeply, and build from fragments. Isn&#8217;t AI just a digital improvisation: unpredictable, sometimes uncanny, ripe with potential, sparking ideas the human might not arrive at alone &#8211; that\u2019s exciting, not threatening. For many musicians, the more relevant question is: <em>what can I make with this?<\/em> In the same way a guitarist embraces distortion or a producer layers auto-tuned vocals, musicians approach AI as a medium, not a rival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musicians have always been quick to adopt new tools. From drum machines to digital audio workstations, looping pedals to synthesizers, music has a history of absorbing technology, bending it toward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8892\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-8892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}