Are intellectual property laws ready for AI in the UK? - Clayden Law Solicitors

It's easy to conceive of there being challenges for those drafting contracts relating to legal'risk' and liability. For example, what about the healthcare organisation that uses AI to analyse huge volumes of patient data (as well as data from other sources), to understand symptoms and provide suggested treatment options? For example, if something using AI'does what it does' and comes out with a new invention… without any human involvement… surely that would make it the legal'inventor'? But under UK patent law, an inventor is defined as a'person'. So how does this work if the inventor is a computer? Furthermore, as things currently stand, if that person discloses their invention to the state, they are given a 20 year'patent bargain' (a monopoly on that invention).