<2> Judges Find AI Doesn’t Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases
<3> Two U.S. judges have effectively declared AI bots are not human, writes Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit in which artist and computer scientist Stephen Thaler tried to copyright an artwork that he acknowledged had been created by an AI bot of his own invention.
<3> The case involved art created by non-humans, which cannot be copyrighted, according to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Judge Patricia A. Millett cited longstanding regulations of the Copyright Office requiring that “for a work to be copyrightable, it must owe its origin to a human being.” She rejected Thaler’s argument, as had the federal trial judge who first heard the case, that the Copyright Office’s insistence that the author of a work must be human was unconstitutional.
<3> Another AI-related case involved one Bradley Heppner, who was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly looting $150 million from a financial services company he chaired. Heppner pleaded innocent and was released on $25-million bail. The case is pending. Knowing that an indictment was in the offing, Heppner had consulted