Jean-Michel Jarre urges music and film industries to embrace AI

The French musician says AI won’t kill talent – in stark contrast to anxieties expressed by artists like Elton John and Dua Lipa

Jean-Michel Jarre has attacked the conservatism of the music and film industries over AI and urged them to embrace the technology instead of being fearful and “very anti-AI”.

Jarre, one of the pioneers of electronic music in the 1970s, said while the existing creative industries were “freaking out” over the technology, artists will use AI “to create the cinema of tomorrow, the hip-hop of tomorrow, the techno of tomorrow, the rock’n’roll of tomorrow”.