‘It’s the future’: Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. on AI in the music industry

The music producer and Grammy Awards chief doesn’t think AI will ruin the industry. But he’s still nervous about it.

The three years that Harvey Mason Jr. has been CEO of the Recording Academy have been some of the most eventful in the music industry since Napster upended the idea that people have to pay for music. At least then, peer-to-peer sharing was the industry’s sole existential threat.