AES Show 2024 NY

In this timely panel let’s discuss some of the pressing matters AI confronts us with in audio, and how we can turn a perceived foe into an ally.
We’ll discuss issues including:
During production, AI cannot deal with any artistic issues related to production and engineering, most of which depend on personal interaction - as well as perception.

In post-production, AI could be of use in repetitive tasks: making a track conform to a click-track and maintain proper pitch, perform pitch correction on a track, deal with extraneous clicks (without removing important vocal consonants), perform ambience-matching (particularly on live recordings), to name a few. Can AI running in the background on our DAW build macros for us?

The more we can use it as a tool for creativity and enhance our revenue streams the more it becomes a practical, positive approach. Many composers are using it to create or enhance their musical ideals almost instantaneously. The key here is that it is they are our ideas that AI adds to.

How do we embrace AI, adapt to it, and help it to adapt to us? Can we get to the point where we incorporate it as we have past innovations rather than fear it? How do we take control of AI instead of AI taking control of us?

What should we, the audio community, be asking AI to do?