Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: An Introduction

Abstract

Artificial intelligence is improving rapidly in terms of its capabilities and utility, which is going to have disruptive effects socially, economically, and legally. Among other things, advances in AI are challenging fundamental tenets of IP law by generating creative and inventive output, by using IP in new ways such as for training machine learning systems and for generating insights, by facilitating administrative processes and decision making, and even by deceiving consumers. These technological advances require us to give careful thought to how legal rules should be applied in the future if IP systems are to continue to achieve their goals. This chapter considers some of the key questions in the emerging field of AI and IP and discusses the contributions of a group of world-leading authors to how to think about AI and IP. It concludes with perspectives on AI functionally generating historically protectable sorts of works in the absence of traditional authors or inventors.

Keywords: artificial intelligence policy, intellectual property policy, computer-generated works, principles of intellectual property law