As artificial intelligence takes on tasks once exclusive to humans — from driving to designing — the law is struggling to keep up. Ryan Abbott, a partner at Brown Neri Smith & Khan LLP and Professor at the University of Surrey, has been at the forefront of this debate. Through his Artificial Inventor Project, Abbott argues for “AI legal neutrality”: the idea that legal outcomes should be based on behavior, not whether the actor is human or machine.
In this Q&A published by The Breaker, Abbott discusses AI inventorship, orginality, and why current legal frameworks are being quietly but profoundly disrupted by generative technologies. Drawing on his book The Reasonable Robot, Abbott warns that if we fail to adapt, the law could lag dangerously behind innovation.
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