Does the university need an ‘arts and crafts’ movement in response to generative AI?

Earp and colleagues recently proposed a normative vision of academic authorship (that I call ‘valuable idea ownership’) for human-AI co-production of academic articles which combines so-called process goods with outcome goods:[i]if the core idea is both valuable and genuinely the author’s own — if it reflects a novel insight, a creative synthesis, or an argument that would not have existed but for the author’s intellectual initiative — then there is a plausible case for authorship even if much of the initial execution of that idea was delegated (Earp et al, p.

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JME Practical Bioethics
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2026-04-01
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https://doi.org/10.1136/jmepb-2026-000196
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Digital Education and Society
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Does the university need an ‘arts and crafts’ movement in response to generative AI?

Timothy Daly
JME Practical Bioethics
Digital Education and Society
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Does the university need an ‘arts and crafts’ movement in response to generative AI?

Timothy Daly
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Earp and colleagues recently proposed a normative vision of academic authorship (that I call ‘valuable idea ownership’) for human-AI co-production of academic articles which combines so-called process goods with outcome goods:[i]if the core idea is both valuable and genuinely the author’s own — if it reflects a novel insight, a creative synthesis, or an argument that would not have existed but for the author’s intellectual initiative — then there is a plausible case for authorship even if much of the initial execution of that idea was delegated (Earp et al, p.

JME Practical BioethicsVol. 2(2)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (FR), Sorbonne Université (FR), Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Argentina (AR), Sciences, Normes, Démocratie (FR)
Openalex Percentile: Top 13%
Digital Education and Society
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Does the university need an ‘arts and crafts’ movement in response to generative AI? — Timothy Daly · JME Practical Bioethics (2026) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS