Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be flooding the internet with infinite songs and cloned voices, but musician AR Rahman is approaching it from the inside. In July 2025, the composer announced that he is joining forces with Sam Altman’s OpenAI to create Secret Mountain, a virtual global band driven by AI. Even as he explores the possibilities of the rapidly advancing technology, Rahman is clear about one aspect.

“Anything on social media could be AI — songs, voices, everything. But what it cannot give you is the human experience,” he told mid-day at a Yamaha event in Chennai on March 22.