Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

For most of his career, the Emmy Award–winning composer and producer Lucas Cantor Santiago was a self—described luddite. Technology, he felt, was moving too fast, transforming the world and the arts with no regard for the cost in tradition, hard—won human wisdom, and tried—and—true methods of mastery.

That changed, however, when Cantor Santiago was commissioned by Huawei, one of the largest technology companies on the planet, to collaborate with artificial intelligence and finish Franz Schu...