We are pleased to invite you to the fourth SAPI Colloquium of the year, organized by the Seoul National University AI Policy Initiative (SAPI) and co-hosted by the Center for Law and Economics and the AI Reliability Research Center.
At this colloquium, Professor Shyamkrishna Balganesh of Columbia Law School will present on “Overcoming the AI Authorship Taboo.” Professor Balganesh directs Columbia Law School’s Science, Technology, and Intellectual Property Law Program (STIPL) and serves as Co-Director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts. He has written extensively on intellectual property law, including copyright, with particular attention to understanding and advancing IP law through the concepts and principles of private law. The following is an abstract of Professor Balganesh’s talk.

Overcoming the AI Authorship Taboo
Negative attitudes toward AI-assisted authorship stem from a misunderstanding of the nature of authorship itself. In copyright law, authorship is a flexible, context-specific concept that focuses on the human actor’s substantive role, rather than on excluding technical tools from the creative process. This presentation argues that using AI to assist in—or generate—creative expression can readily coexist with human authorship and established forms of collaborative creation. Bringing AI within the domain of authorship does not diminish human creators; rather, it can help clarify and strengthen the value of human creativity in an AI-enabled society.