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.
Authors
- Timothy Daly
Institutions
- 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)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JME Practical Bioethics
- Published
- 2026-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jmepb-2026-000196
- Primary Topic
- Digital Education and Society
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00