Long before the current media obsession with AI, and the free availability of song-generating programs such as Udio and Suno, Jennifer Walshe was experimenting with artificial intelligence. In 2018 the acclaimed composer improvised with an AI-generated version of herself in a project called Ultrachunk. In 2020 she had an AI system imagine an alternative version of 20th-century music in her Late Anthology of Early Music. The same year she generated an AI Enya in a project called Ireland: A Dataset. Walshe, who is also professor of composition at the University of Oxford, recently wrote an excellent 8,000-word essay for the...