AI crowds out human innovation.
Day ’24 – (Kathleen, A business author and journalist, Kathleen Day, MBA, MS, is a full-time lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School with a specialty in financial crises and how they spread; in corporate governance; and in business communication, particularly during crises, “What’s yours isn’t mine: AI and intellectual property”, 6/14/24, Carey Business School, https://carey.jhu.edu/research/whats-yours-isnt-mine-aI-intellectual-property)
We all benefit from new drugs, improved procedures, and the myriad of other advances AI has helped deliver. But what if the people whose work led to these breakthroughs lack the incentive to keep producing groundbreaking research? If AI uses their intellectual property without permission or compensation, they may have less incentive to produce more. That halts progress for everyone, and, paradoxically, for AI itself, as the well of examples computers analyze could dry up.
Failure to protect intellectual property can discourage writers, artists, and other creators from producing new work and could hinder the existing fountain of human creativity—the very thing computers use to learn to mimic us.