The'America's Got Talent' judge tells Fox News Digital why he doesn't like artificial intelligence technology in songwriting. Simon Cowell wants to see artists protected against AI. The "America's Got Talent" judge wrote commentary in The Daily Mail this week criticizing potential changes to U.K. law that would allow companies to use any online material to train AI models unless they explicitly opt out. Cowell warned that the livelihood of artists was at risk of "being wiped out." "The thought that anyone would believe they have the right to blindly give this country's creative ideas away – for nothing – is just wrong," he said.

The album, titled Is This What We Want, was launched on Tuesday and features recordings of empty studios and performance spaces, as backlash against the plan grows in the United Kingdom. The proposed changes would allow AI developers to train their models on any material to which they have lawful access, and would require creators to proactively opt out to stop their work from being used. The emergence of AI has posed a threat to the creative industry, including music, raising legal and ethical questions on a new technological platform that could produce its own output without paying creators of original content. Bush and other writers and musicians denounced the proposals in UK law as a "wholesale giveaway" to Silicon Valley in a letter to The Times newspaper. Ed Newton-Rex, organiser of the project, said musicians were "united in their thorough condemnation of this ill-thought-through plan".