DREAM THEATER’s JORDAN RUDESS: ‘I Don’t Think A.I. Is Gonna Destroy The World Any More Than All The Technology We Had Before It Will’ [Video]

DREAM THEATER keyboardist Jordan Rudess has once again weighed in on a debate about people using artificial intelligence (A.I.) to create music. Asked by “#UpgradeMe With Dana Leong” to clarify his feelings about this new technology, Jordan said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “There’s a lot of confusion, there’s a lot of fear about A.I., there’s a lot of excitement about it. It’s all over the map, and there’s a lot of energy being put behind it. So it’s a tricky world that we live in right now. I don’t think I’ve ever been so into something that has been so like debatable. I could mention to somebody that, ‘Oh, I’m working in A.I. music making.’ ‘Oh, that’s the devil. You shouldn’t be doing that. And ‘I’m gonna ban Jordan Rudess from my life, because he’s working on destroying the world.’ So there’s that to contend with.

“The area that I’m working on, even though …