{"id":246522,"date":"2026-05-15T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/the-founders-case-for-human-authorship-in-the-age-of-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:20:07","slug":"the-founders-case-for-human-authorship-in-the-age-of-ai-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/the-founders-case-for-human-authorship-in-the-age-of-ai-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Founders\u2019 Case for Human Authorship in the Age of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/the-founders-case-for-human-authorship-in-the-age-of-ai\">The Founders\u2019 Case for Human Authorship in the Age of AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/the-founders-case-for-human-authorship-in-the-age-of-ai\">https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/the-founders-case-for-human-authorship-in-the-age-of-ai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-15 08:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.techpolicy.press\">www.techpolicy.press<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model \u2026 But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.\u201d \u2013 Sam Altman<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difference is that humans aren&#8217;t an inefficient line item. They&#8217;re the point.\u201d \u2013 L. David Fairchild<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case (Thaler v. Perlmutter) about whether art generated entirely by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted. The DC Circuit had ruled against a computer scientist who listed AI as the sole author on a work of art, so the US Copyright Office can maintain its human authorship requirement, at least for now. Although the statutory interpretation undergirding the decision is sound\u2014among other things, the Copyright Act expressly refers to the \u201cintention,\u201d \u201clife,\u201d and \u201csurviving children\u201d of an author\u2014there is a deeper constitutional argument, rooted in the small \u201cr\u201d, republican foundations of the copyright system itself, that has received less attention. That argument matters because it provides a more durable foundation for eventual Supreme Court review of future cases\u2014and guardrails for any reform.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution grants Congress the power \u201cto promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.\u201d James Madison argued that for both copyrights and patents,\u201cthe public good fully coincides\u2026 \u00adwith the claims of individuals.\u201d However, the Founders also understood that self-interest should be channeled towards socially beneficial ends, so they endorsed limiting and conditioning incentives accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike rights in real property, which may be granted in perpetuity, copyrights and patents are inherently temporary \u2014 a bargain between creators and society. Those impermanent monopolies served not only an economic purpose but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/the-founders-case-for-human-authorship-in-the-age-of-ai\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Founders\u2019 Case for Human Authorship in the Age of AI https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/the-founders-case-for-human-authorship-in-the-age-of-ai Publish Date: 2026-05-15&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/3tzzh18d\/production\/1119a4df44c3e49d9fb4135dd88428f2d8a5c852-1200x675.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246526,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246522\/revisions\/246526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}