Sounds like a way to get around the very few laws that inhibit corporations.
Patents must be tied to a human, to avoid the problems that would come from a corporation owning a patent.
Now people are campaigning for AI's to be allowed to hold a patent, under the guise of futurism, but I'm sure the much simpler reason is simply that a corporation can own an AI in ways they can't own a human.
IE "Disney owns AI Steve, AI Steve owns the patent on this animation software, so in effect Disney owns the patent on this animation software"
AI rights only existing insofar as they can further corporate interests would actually be an interesting direction for a cyberpunk dystopia. Don't think I've ever seen that, but it flows pretty intuitively the common themes in cyberpunk stories.
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Sounds like a way to get around the very few laws that inhibit corporations.
Patents must be tied to a human, to avoid the problems that would come from a corporation owning a patent.
Now people are campaigning for AI's to be allowed to hold a patent, under the guise of futurism, but I'm sure the much simpler reason is simply that a corporation can own an AI in ways they can't own a human.
IE "Disney owns AI Steve, AI Steve owns the patent on this animation software, so in effect Disney owns the patent on this animation software"
AI rights only existing insofar as they can further corporate interests would actually be an interesting direction for a cyberpunk dystopia. Don't think I've ever seen that, but it flows pretty intuitively the common themes in cyberpunk stories.