Vernon Reid is a guitarist, songwriter, founder and primary songwriter of the rock band Living Colour. Vernon was named No. 66 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. EPISODE LINKS https://twitter.com/vurnt22 https://www.instagram.com/vurnt22 FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon OUTLINE 0:00 - Caribbean Race riots & growing up in Brooklyn 5:39 - Science-Fiction inspired tech 13:50 - Chat GPT 21:27 - Will artificial intelligence destroy art? / AI Drake 36:25 - Death & Consciousness 42:35 - Doing things for pleasure VS money 50:18 - Richard Prior & using pain as creative fuel 54:44 - How will AI manipulate humans? 1:02:10 - Technology & music 1:15:10 - Cloning 1:19:50 - Merging man & machine 1:29:49 - Simulation theory 1:40:36 - How artificial intelligence will better humanity 1:46:59 - AI photography & Midjourney 1:51:17 - Deep fakes & AI generated video 1:56:59 - The future of music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices