Ed Newton-Rex is a composer and the founder of the AI non-profit Fairly Trained.

In 2010 he founded Jukedeck, one of the first AI music generation startups, which was acquired by ByteDance. At ByteDance, Ed led the AI Music lab, then led Product for TikTok in Europe. He later led the Audio team at Stability AI, where his team’s product, Stable Audio, was named one of TIME Magazine’s best inventions of the year in 2023.

In 2024 he founded Fairly Trained, a non-profit that certifies generative AI companies for fairer training data practices. He organised the Statement on AI Training, an open letter rejecting unfair generative AI training practices signed by more than 50,000 people, and Is This What We Want?, a protest album co-written by 1,000 UK musicians. He was named in TIME Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence in 2025.

Ed’s music is published by Boosey & Hawkes and Novello. He has composed music for various choirs, groups and festivals, including the King's Singers, the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, and the BBC Radio 3 broadcast from the Edington Festival.

Expertise and public engagement

Selected publications

• Ed Newton-Rex. The insurmountable problems with generative AI opt-outs
• The Guardian: Robots sacked, screenings shut down: a new movement of luddites is rising up against AI
• The Guardian: For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them
• Hollywood Reporter: Creators Are Losing the AI Copyright Battle. We Have to Keep Fighting