The twenty-first century has brought a wave of global technological advancement to make information more accessible than ever before in human history. Countless industries have benefitted from this newfound availability of information, including the education sector. The internet provides students with a wealth of information from which to draw, while teachers can access a breadth and depth of resources that dwarf what was available to their twentieth-century counterparts. These technological advances have fundamentally changed education and will continue to do so as long as technological evolution persists at such a rapid pace (Rivoltella, Studi Sulla Formazione/Open J Edu, 26(2), 63–67. https://doi.org/10.36253/ssf-14975 , 2023). The latest breakthrough in technology, artificial intelligence (AI), has the potential to upend the education system as we know it. This contribution approaches using artificial intelligence in music education as part of the creative cognitive process. AI in education is a very diverse field, dating from about 1970 (Carbonell, IEEE Trans MMS, 11(4), 190–202, 1970), and it has its own developed methodologies, techniques, and traditions. The field is highly interdisciplinary, involving substantial contributions from the fields of music, education, AI, cognitive psychology, the psychology of music, social psychology, anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, human-computer interaction, and many other fields (Holland, Artificial intelligence in music education: a critical review. In E Miranda (Ed.), Readings in music and artificial intelligence, contemporary music studies, vol 20, Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000).