TY - GEN
T1 - Embodiment, Anthropomorphism, and Intellectual Property Rights for AI Creations
AU - Somaya, Deepak
AU - Varshney, Lav R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 ACM.
PY - 2018/12/27
Y1 - 2018/12/27
N2 - Computational creativity is an emerging branch of artificial intelligence (AI) concerned with algorithms that can create novel and high-quality ideas or artifacts, either autonomously or semi-autonomously in collaboration with people. Quite simply, such algorithms may be described as artificial innovation engines. These technologies raise questions of authorship/inventorship and of agency, which become further muddled by the social context induced by AI that may be physically-embodied or anthropomorphized. These questions are fundamentally intertwined with the provision of appropriate incentives for conducting and commercializing computational creativity research through intellectual property regimes. This paper reviews current understanding of intellectual property rights for AI, and explores possible framings for intellectual property policy in social context.
AB - Computational creativity is an emerging branch of artificial intelligence (AI) concerned with algorithms that can create novel and high-quality ideas or artifacts, either autonomously or semi-autonomously in collaboration with people. Quite simply, such algorithms may be described as artificial innovation engines. These technologies raise questions of authorship/inventorship and of agency, which become further muddled by the social context induced by AI that may be physically-embodied or anthropomorphized. These questions are fundamentally intertwined with the provision of appropriate incentives for conducting and commercializing computational creativity research through intellectual property regimes. This paper reviews current understanding of intellectual property rights for AI, and explores possible framings for intellectual property policy in social context.
KW - artificial intelligence
KW - computational creativity
KW - human-computer interaction
KW - intellectual property rights
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U2 - 10.1145/3278721.3278754
DO - 10.1145/3278721.3278754
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85061051447
T3 - AIES 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
SP - 278
EP - 283
BT - AIES 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 1st AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, AIES 2018
Y2 - 2 February 2018 through 3 February 2018
ER -