In a brand new interview with Jorge Botas of Portugal’s Metal Global, DARK TRANQUILLITY and THE HALO EFFECT frontman Mikael Stanne weighed in on a debate concerning the number of risks A.I. (synthetic intelligence) poses, starting from the small to, probably, the existential. Requested whether it is scary that A.I. can surpass human capabilities in lots of domains, equivalent to creativity and problem-solving, Mikael mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah, it’s, after all. Yeah, I like know-how. I like new concepts. I like new progress. But in addition I used to be very hopeful. In my teenagers, when the Web form of began taking place, I used to be, like, ‘That is the best factor ever. It’s gonna change the world simply because lastly we have now entry to all the knowledge we want. So no person has to imagine something anymore. We are able to simply know as a result of the knowledge is there. It’s like the very best library on the planet that’s open to everybody. And everyone may have form of entry to the identical info.’ And I dreamt of the world with out faith and perception in pseudoscience and all that stuff. And I used to be, like, ‘Oh, man, think about.’ However, after all, the other occurred. And it is the identical right here [with A.I.]. I feel it may be an excellent instrument, after all, for lots of people, and I feel we are going to view it as an excellent instrument sooner or later, however for now, it does appear scary as a result of we all know what can be finished. Within the fallacious fingers, these are usually not instruments, however — properly, they are instruments, however for misinformation quite than to assist the artistic course of or one thing like that. In order that half is scary and we must be very cautious of the way it’s used and likewise form of implement these safeguards so that you could simply truly see whether it is one thing that’s altered and never an authentic factor. However let’s examine. It’s thrilling as a result of it is new and it is fascinating… And it is actually tough to wrap your head round, as a result of, yeah, each month there is a new model of issues popping out that has new options and new issues that may do it so significantly better. So, yeah, these quantum leaps are taking place each six months or extra, and it is gonna transfer even sooner. So, yeah, it’s scary. I speak quite a bit about it with a few of my journalist mates, and they’re frightened about it too. Positive, you possibly can go, yeah, A.I. is just not gonna exchange anybody, however possibly a man who actually is aware of the way to use A.I. will exchange somebody who would not.”
Stanne added: “You possibly can have some enjoyable with it, certain. However you too can completely simply use it for the fallacious causes, or we simply make issues simpler and extra streamlined and boring and never artistic. And I feel that is the scary half. The largest newspaper right here in Gothenburg, they apply it to each third article or one thing like that. And you go, like, ‘Oh, yeah. Okay. Is that the place we’re going now?’ Simply compiling info, identical to a journalist would, however it’s sooner however it’s much less of an individual there, there’s much less of a editorial form of spin on issues. And if persons are not studying sufficient as it’s now — you solely learn the headlines within the newspapers and also you form of get the gist and also you go, like, ‘Yeah, I am transferring on,’ your consideration span could be very restricted — then this isn’t gonna make it any higher, for certain.”
DARK TRANQUILLITY‘s newest album, “Endtime Indicators”, was launched on August 16 through Century Media Data.
In July 2023, guitarist Christopher Amott introduced his departure from DARK TRANQUILLITY. He mentioned in an announcement that there was “no unhealthy blood in any respect” between him and the opposite members of DARK TRANQUILLITY and defined that it was “time” for him to focus on some new music that he was “very pleased with”. He has since been changed on the street by Peter “Pepe” Lyse Karmark (HATESPHERE).
The 46-year-old Amott, who was a founding member of ARCH ENEMY, alongside his brother Michael Amott, formally joined DARK TRANQUILLITY in 2020 after beforehand being a member of the band’s touring lineup since 2017.
Three years in the past, DARK TRANQUILLITY parted methods with drummer Anders Jivarp and bassist Anders Iwers.
Jivarp was an authentic member of DARK TRANQUILLITY, having performed on the entire band’s releases to this point. Iwers joined DARK TRANQUILLITY in 2016 and performed on the group’s earlier two albums, 2016’s “Atoma” and 2020’s “Second”.
Jivarp and Iwers have since been changed by Joakim Strandberg Nilsson (IN MOURNING, WOLVES WITHIN) and Christian Jansson (GRAND CADAVER, PAGANDOM),respectively.