Harvey Mason Jr. sits at the center of one of music’s sharpest tensions. As CEO of the Recording Academy, he oversees the Grammys. He also confronts a technology that has flooded studios and streaming platforms alike. In a new interview, Mason describes artificial intelligence as “omnipresent” in music production. Every session he joins these days includes it. The tools generate chord progressions. They fill drum loops. They craft entire tracks, lyrics, background vocals, and even rhyming suggestions. Quality jumped fast. Eighteen months ago, listeners spotted AI output immediately. Now? Mason hears tracks and feels surprised when told a machine produced them. The results impress him. Yet they disturb him too. He represents roughly 30,000 music professionals and millions more worldwide who spent years honing craft. Prompting a song feels different. It bypasses the grind. The passion. The human struggle that once defined creation. AI saturates the studio. Humans fight for credit. Numbers back the shift.…