The future of the creative economy—and possibly human self-worth—now rests on a question of legal semantics: Can a machine be an “author”? Computer scientist Stephen Thaler has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the denial of copyright protection for an image titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” a work his AI system, DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience), created autonomously. Thaler isn’t claiming he authored it; he explicitly listed the AI as the author. This […]