In a new interview with Riff X, ALTER BRIDGE's Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy weighed in on the debate surrounding artificial intelligence (A.I.) being used to create music.

Regarding whether he thinks this new technology is useful or if it's dangerous, Myles said: These are crazy times.

On one hand, it's exciting 'cause it could be good.

And I think in a lot of instances it's very good.

It has the potential to just change so much, like medically, and if we can use it for good.

I'll speak for myself — I won't speak for everybody — but my concern is that it might be something that unless we start to kind of set up the guardrails now and certain things aren't regulated — kind of like with when we developed the atomic bomb… Once we realized the magnitude of what that could do, you had to kind of get everybody together and say, 'Hey, let's keep this safe here.' And I feel like with this particular technology, I don't sense that right now.

And it kind of concerns me 'cause I think there's so many things that could go wrong if we leave that unchecked.

I think a lot of things are gonna go extremely right, but I think the rate of change is gonna be something, as human beings, we've never seen.

Mark chimed in: Yeah.

I think the art communities are gonna be hit the hardest, because I think slowly but surely music will start sounding perfect, and then people are gonna start liking imperfection, and then A.I.

is gonna follow that imperfection.

And then you'll have A.I.

imperfection.

It's gonna keep following this wave of what people are wanting.

But I think, like Myles said, in the next five years or so, will be the last time in the history of our humankind that you're gonna know art is… A.I.'s gonna take over everything — movie scripts, books, paintings, everything.

And it's gonna take half a second to do something.

The band has expressed concern that once people become accustomed to AI-generated music, they may start expecting human bands to play songs created by the technology.

Myles noted: But here's something that could happen in the future, where fans, they just prompt the A.I., like, 'Hey, write a song about this, whatever subject matter, in the style of ALTER BRIDGE.' And then the fans are all, like… It gets to a point where those songs become, in that community, [fans are], like, 'Oh, have you heard the song about the witches riding the dragon?' whatever that analogy is, and then it becomes a huge favorite.

And then as touring artists, the fans are, like, 'Hey, are you gonna play that one song about the witch riding the purple dragon?' 'No, we didn't write that song.' And that could happen in 10 years where fans are gonna expect the bands to play [some songs that was created with A.I.].

ALTER BRIDGE's current lineup consists of Myles Kennedy (vocals/guitars), Mark Tremonti (guitars/vocals), Brian Marshall (bass) and Scott Phillips (drums).

The band will be touring in support of their self-titled album, which arrived on January 9, 2026 via Napalm Records.

The "What Lies Within" tour kicked off on January 15 in Germany and runs through March 5 in Nottingham, U.K.