Legal and regulatory regimes often struggle to keep pace with emerging technology, but the challenge of AI is uniquely complex.
Intellectual Property (IP) is a particularly confusing component, for who can claim ownership over content created by a machine?
Tom Lingard, a partner at law firm Stevens & Bolton who specialises in intellectual property and technology law, says there's still no clear answer to the question.
"While there has been a lot of artificial intelligence being used and developed, it hasn't been producing outputs which have been publicly available or which are necessarily intellectual creations in their own right," he tells Techworld.
"It's only now that it's being used to create things like music and news reports and things like that that suddenly the question of protecting those outputs is coming into focus a bit more."
Existing legislation was passed before the potential implications of AI were understood. It includes provisions that could be relevant to content created by intelligent machines, but it remains unclear exactly how they would apply.
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