Companies, organizations, and governments around the world are implementing or endorsing principles for artificial intelligence. During the Berkman Klein Center's first fully-virtual Tuesday luncheon, Jessica Fjeld, Assistant Director of BKC's Cyberlaw Clinic and lead author of the Principled AI report, and Ryan Budish, Assistant Research Director at BKC and a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)'s AI Governance Expert Group that came up with principles for OECD's AI Principles, teamed up to share their experiences. Their discussion was moderated by BKC Executive Director Urs Gasser and also featured commentary from members of the BKC community. Fjeld explained the method of creating the Principled AI report and visualization, which analyzed AI principles from around the world and ultimately identified eight trends among them. "We believe [these themes] are the signs of the earliest emerging consensus for societal norms around how AI can be -- should be -- used," she said.

In press materials for "Gradient Descent," Nature Morte stated that the works are created "entirely by AI in collaboration with artists." Obvious even signed their work with the mathematical equation for the algorithm they used, rather than the collective's name. As much as artists and gallerists may enjoy attributing authorship to AI, and emphasize that they cannot anticipate just what an AI algorithm will produce, legally, there is no doubt as to whether it's the human artist or the AI who owns the finished work. AI is simply a tool artists use, the way a photographer uses a camera or Adobe Photoshop in the creation of their images, says Jessica Fjeld, assistant director of the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School. "Humans are deeply involved with every aspect of the creation and training of today's AI technologies, and this will continue to be true tomorrow and for the foreseeable future," Fjeld says.