What Gabriella Di Laccio has said about Artificial intelligence

3 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 2, 2026

Gabriella Di Laccio, Brazilian-born classical soprano and founder of the Donne Foundation, which documents women composers, has been quoted on Artificial intelligence 3 times in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on October 2, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Di Laccio criticizes AI music generation for not paying royalties to the artists whose work it draws on.

    “AI creates new music. It doesn't pay any royalties to the people whose music it's using to create”

    TED Radio Hour: The women missing from music (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 35:32

  • Di Laccio warns that AI trained on a male-dominated catalog will reproduce the erasure of women's voices at greater speed.

    “Otherwise, we're just going to replicate this image erasure of the women's voices at, you know, much faster scale”

    TED Radio Hour: The women missing from music (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 35:32

  • Di Laccio believes people will increasingly crave live, human-made music and that living artists must be supported.

    “We must continue to support living artists because I think in 10 years time, We will crave live music done by people”

    TED Radio Hour: The women missing from music (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 39:48

Episodes

  • The women missing from music

    TED Radio Hour · Oct 2, 2026 · 50 min

    Manoush Zomorodi talks with soprano Gabriella Di Laccio about forgotten women composers and AI, then airs Nadya Tolokonnikova's TED Talk on Pussy Riot's resistance.

Others on Artificial intelligence

Gabriella Di Laccio on other topics