For Sean McMahon, chair of the screen scoring program at Berklee College of Music, AI isn’t “there” yet, and he sees it relegated potentially to generating library music in the near future.

A major element of those strikes - artificial intelligence - has also been on the minds of students and faculty working in media scoring and other programs around the country. The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes have led to the delay of some apprenticeship programs at the USC Thornton School of Music over the summer. Even music schools aren’t immune to the impact of Hollywood’s labor disputes.