from Hacker News

It's Time to Amend the Patent Act for AI Inventors

by ejz on 2/13/25, 5:34 PM with 1 comments

• by cratermoon on 2/13/25, 5:55 PM

  > Imagine a not-too-distant future where artificial intelligence (AI) systems develop a new compound that could cure cancer, and no human can be fairly identified as the inventor. What happens next?

  > Under current patent law, the answer is simple but troubling: if no human can be listed as the inventor, no one owns the patent.

  Tell me why anyone, or anything, should "own" a patent for the cure for cancer.