AI In The Classroom: The Future of Music Education

While SUNO is portrayed by many as the evil AI music company training AI on copyrighted music without permission, traditional music schools worldwide, like the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and the National Institute of Education in Singapore, embrace it.Meanwhile students at Berklee College of Music say AI is ruining their education. Other institutions like Syracuse University are cutting music or deleting music programs altogether. On the horizon, will independent self-thinking agentic bots not only teach music classes, but also even give one-on-one music lessons? If music programs hope to be around ten years from now, they have to treat AI not as a novelty or a threat to hide from, but as a tidal wave reshaping the musical world students are entering. The real question isn’t whether AI will be part of that world—it’s whether schools will prepare students to survive in that world.