Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence
Marketa Trimble · GRUR International · 2022
As with academics in other fields, law academics are concerned about artificial intelligence (AI) and its effects on society, specifically its impact on law and its possible role in the legal system. Less attention seems to be paid to the effects that AI might have on human intelligence and the legal implications that might arise from those effects. Law scholars have researched and discussed many aspects of the existence and effects of AI, including the large-scale use of data in the development and lifecycle of AI, algorithmic decision-making by AI and various types of AI acts ‒ from accidents involving self-driving cars to case reporting by psychotherapy apps (e.g. Brauneis and Goodman (2018), Stein (2022), Solaiman and Cohen (2023 forthcoming)). AI has also caused concern among IP law scholars, who have debated the status and ownership of inventions and other works created by AI, its impact on patent prosecution and other IP grant and registration processes, and AI’s effects on innovation and creativity (e.g. Samuelson (1986), Dornis (2020), von Lewinski (2022), Leistner (2022), Abbott (2022 forthcoming)).