[ExI] AI can't invent (Legally!)

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When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit?
Patents can only name humans as inventors. For now.
By Antonio Regalado     August 21, 2026

<https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/21/1142627/when-ai-designs-a-drug-who-gets-the-credit/>
Quotes:
When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to
propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically
claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “discovered by”
its generative AI platform.
However, when it came time to file for an all-important patent to
protect that new chemical structure, the company made no mention of
AI. Instead the patent names five humans, including CEO Alex
Zhavoronkov, as the drug’s “inventors.”

Should pushing a button count as being an inventor? Abbott says that’s
a question for future legal cases. “What if I asked Claude to cure
cancer, and it did?” he says. “I think it would be inappropriate to
claim that I invented that.”
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