The 74-year-old noted that while the technology can construct a catchy pop song, it lacks the lived experience of a human artist.<\/p>\n
He told the BBC<\/a>\u2019s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg<\/a>: “I think AI can make perfectly serviceable pop music that you might hear in a railway station or a hotel lobby, and you can hear it, but would you listen to it?<\/p>\n “Because AI has never had its heart broken, it doesn\u2019t have a story, it has a borrowed story, so you\u2019re not really hearing a song.<\/p>\n “So, in that sense, I don\u2019t feel any competition so far, people still want to come and see live concerts, they want to see a human being, a vulnerable human being who can make mistakes and not a machine that is perfect.”<\/p>\n However, Sting, whose real name is Gordon Sumner, cautioned that there is a “danger right now with AI potentially destroying the labour economy”, adding that “we\u2019re all in that danger”.<\/p>\n The artist, whose musical The Last Ship arrives on the West End<\/a> from next week, is among several musicians to voice opinions on AI.<\/p>\n David Bowie<\/a> producer Tony Visconti<\/a> told the Press Association earlier this month that the late star would have experimented with the tools, but called them “disgusting”, while dance producer Nia Archives said AI music “won\u2019t last”.<\/p>\n She said in July: “I don\u2019t know if AI music will last to be honest with you, I think it\u2019s quite like a fleeting technology moment.”<\/p>\n By contrast, 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry urged artists in May to “embrace” AI.<\/p>\n She said: “To me, it\u2019s just another tool that has shown up to make people\u2019s life easier in some way.<\/p>\n “I said earlier, like microwaves, when microwaves showed up, everybody thought it was the end of making dinner, and mums were just going to throw it in there, and poof, we were going to be in the Jetsons with this powder that turns into a turkey for Thanksgiving, and it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s just this is the future, we have to embrace it, because if we try to run from the future, then we\u2019re running from solution.”<\/p>\n Alongside The Police, Sting achieved five UK number one singles \u2014 including \u201cMessage In A Bottle\u201d, \u201cEvery Little Thing She Does Is Magic\u201d and \u201cEvery Breath You Take\u201d \u2014 and six UK number one albums.<\/p>\n His solo career, launched in 1985, brought a further three UK top 10 singles and three UK number one albums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,71525,776,186211,6494,11237,190168,204026,1291,6500,2207,9210,6487,86,256474,187958,56,54,55,659],"class_list":["post-777948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-arts-culture-and-entertainment","tag-california","tag-city-of-los-angeles","tag-color-image","tag-horizontal","tag-incidental-people","tag-linda-perry","tag-museum","tag-one-person","tag-people","tag-performance","tag-photography","tag-technology","tag-the-grammy-museum","tag-three-quarter-length","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sting](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/624726210...jpeg\")
Sting believes that the labour economy faces a threat from AI (Getty)<\/p>\n![\"Linda](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2294623490...jpeg\")
Linda Perry has encouraged artists to \u2018embrace\u2019 AI (Getty)<\/p>\n