{"id":58870,"date":"2025-10-07T08:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/58870\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:32:09","slug":"dawn-of-ai-is-the-modern-industrial-revolution-says-huddersfield-opera-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/58870\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn of AI is the modern Industrial Revolution, says Huddersfield opera writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Conlon &amp; Rima AhmedYorkshire<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758793090_130_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hagXkB hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/454bce80-a2bd-11f0-b2c5-019105d9c0cd.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra A man (Ben Crick) crouches down in front of a green door attached to a brick wall. He is wearing blue jeans and a brown checked shirt.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 bGQwLJ\"\/>Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra<\/p>\n<p>The Last Machine Breaker is the brainchild of Huddersfield-born composer Ben Crick<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A new opera will compare the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) with the impact of the Industrial Revolution in West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The Last Machine Breaker, by Huddersfield composer Ben Crick, will tour Yorkshire next month as part of the Bradford Opera Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The opera will contrast the social impact of AI with the technological advancements experienced in the early 1800s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Crick, known for telling stories of the North of England through opera, described the project as his &#8220;most personal to date&#8221;, saying it explored the &#8220;link to who we are now from where we were then&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The Last Machine Breaker is set across two different timelines &#8211; 1813 and 2030 &#8211; telling the stories of characters living through each respective generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Crick said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been banging on about this for the last five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;I could see it coming &#8211; these great challenges when there&#8217;s this massive technological advancement in quite a short period of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;It obviously has knock-on effects for the communities, and this happened before in Huddersfield in 1812, where a labour market is massively disrupted by the implementation of technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Life-and-death questions&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Performances will take place in Bradford, Leeds and Skipton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">It will also be shown in Marsden, which is considered the birthplace of the Luddites, the 19th-Century mill workers who opposed the introduction of new machinery out of fear it would lead to unemployment and reduced wages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Crick said: &#8220;Technology is coming and the Luddites knew this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;Society asks questions like, &#8216;What do we do with the people who aren&#8217;t needed by the industry where technology replaces them?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;These are life-and-death questions about how society is going to treat people who are left behind by technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;These questions have been asked here in West Yorkshire 200 years back, so what can we learn from the history of the North that might help us today?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Conlon &amp; Rima AhmedYorkshire Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra The Last Machine Breaker is the brainchild of Huddersfield-born composer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-58870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}