"Existing intellectual property laws don’t allow AI systems to be
recognized as inventors, which threatens the integrity of the patent
system and the potential to develop life-changing innovations.
Current legislation only allows humans to be recognized as inventors, which could make AI-generated innovations
unpatentable. This would deprive the owners of the AI of the legal
protections they need for the inventions that their systems create.
The Artificial Inventor Project team
has been testing the limitations of these rules by filing patent
applications that designate a machine as the inventor— the first time
that an AI’s role as an inventor had ever been disclosed in a patent
application."
