Inside the the World's First Mainstream Album Made With AI

This article is part of New York's Future Issue, a collection of predictions about the near future as seen through the recent past. Click here to read more. On June 21, 2017, electronic musician Holly Herndon and her husband, writer/philosopher/teacher Mat Dryhurst, welcomed a new addition to their family. "She's an inhuman child," Herndon tells me one afternoon, while seated in the offices of her record label, 4AD. Spawn is nascent machine intelligence, or AI. There's artificial intelligence being deployed for self-driving 18-wheelers, Netflix user-preference predictors, customer service preferences, handwriting recognition, and cyber-security to fight hackers using AI to create malware.