Can Artificial Intelligence Compose Music?

Donna Haraway published A Cyborg Manifesto back in 1985. This now famous essay investigated the disappearing boundaries between humans and machines. Haraway wrote that we were all turning into cyborgs and could use it to our advantage – for feminist emancipation, for example. Today, almost forty years later, the human-machine relationship seems to be entering a radically new stage in its history. Whereas the internet has served as a ‘simple’ extension of human intelligence, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to claim more humanity from us. Will AI be able to create art? This conversation will focus on the question of whether we should resist or embrace the use of AI in music composition. What tasks could be delegated to AI and how? And in what respects is human creativity indispensable?