British singer Sting today predicted that artists will fight back to defend their works against the use of artificial intelligence in the music industry.

The former Police singer, aged 71 today, said in an interview with the BBC that “the building blocks of music belong to us, human beings. There will be a battle that we will all have to fight in the coming years: defending human capital against artificial intelligence.”

Artificial intelligence is already being used to recreate works by famous musicians. Thanks to it, fake works of artists such as Eminem, Drake, The Weeknd or Oasis have been created.

“The tools are useful, but it’s up to us to operate them,” Sting said, stressing: “We can’t let the machines take over, we have to be careful.”

“Maybe for electronic music it will work. But for the songs, which express feelings, I don’t think it would move me,” he added.

The composer and singer of ‘Every Breath You Take’, who has sold more than 100 million records in his career, will be honored today by the British songwriters’ association Ivors Academy by electing him a ‘fellow’, the highest honor reserved for musicians. Sting thus becomes the 23rd “partner”, after Elton John, Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Andrew Lloyd Webber and others.