More Human Than Ever: Choral Music in the Age of AI

AI is moving faster than any previous technological shift, and paradoxically, it makes what we do more valuable, not less. This session places AI within the long lineage of technologies choral music has navigated, from the printing press to the phonograph, revealing a consistent pattern: each tool externalized a task, freed humans for higher-order artistry, and became invisible. As agentic AI begins to offload cognitive labor at scale, society faces the same conditions that gave rise to the great choral societies of the Industrial Revolution. Participants will leave with a strategic advocacy framework and renewed conviction that we are in the business of creating unrepeatable human moments, and that business has never had a bigger market.