Paul McCartney - AI is like the Wild West

Paul McCartney – AI is like the Wild West

“People who have created these copyrights don’t benefit and it takes away a lot of incentive” says McCartney.

In conversation with Laura Kuenssberg, Sir Paul McCartney talked frankly about the subject. He said Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence they are really tricky and a growing dilemma for the Government.

Kuenssberg: How do you deal with the opportunity, also the risks – becomes cleverer and cleverer on computers.

Ministers are suggesting tech companies can hoover up music or any kind of art from the internet to develop their own AI models without having to pay for copyrights in other words for free

For thousand of people in the UK making art isn’t just a passion it’s a job! Not least for Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney he reckons the threats they shouldn’t have to bear

To Paul: as computers become more and more sophisticated and sucks in more and more content that humans have created the Government’s got a big decision to take about whether they protect the copyright of musicians actors artists What do you worry about?