Boklansering: A New Philosophy of Music Education for the Era of AI

The HVL Library welcomes everyone to a public book launch: "A New Philosophy of Music Education for the Era of AI", by Jiaxing Xie and David G. Hebert.

The popularization of generative AI promises to profoundly change life as we know it. In the education professions it is important that we respond rapidly in a careful way to ensure the sustainability of educational quality, cultural heritage, and even personal identity.  This book offers a new vision of how arts fields can reposition themselves as the essential subjects of deep personal meaning in an age of increasing alienation. The authors offer a view of AI that is hopeful yet critical, based on patterns seen in global history, and how collective human intelligence has evolved across time. This is a philosophy that eschews the pitfalls of postmodernism, and is informed by science, as well as global challenges that impact both humans and the natural environment. Against the background of AI's challenges to human modes of production, the authors demonstrate how music education can become a tool for self-discovery in this transformative era.