ASI will reinvent patent and copyright practices
Predictor: Peter Diamandis · ep#240 "NVIDIA's $1 Trillion Prediction, Anthropic Beats OpenAI, Tesla vs. TSMC & The CS Job Collapse" · source
Prediction text
ASI will reinvent patent and copyright practices | ASI is going to definitely reinvent patent and copyright practices.
Watch events: ARC-AGI-2 scores; Frontier Math Tier 4 benchmark; SWE-bench Verified; Humanity's Last Exam
Verbatim quote
ASI is going to definitely reinvent patent and copyright practices.
Predictor: Peter Diamandis
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- 2026-06-01 → 2029-12-31pendingUSPTO updates inventorship guidance to expand 'significant contribution' threshold for AI-assisted inventionsHow: USPTO publishes Federal Register notice updating the November 2025 guidance to broaden allowable AI involvement in patent inventorship; tracks current PTAB liberalization trend on Section 101 AI-related claimsSource: USPTO 'Revised inventorship guidance for AI-assisted inventions' (2025); Alloy Patent Law 2026 updateconf 55%
- 2026-06-01 → 2029-12-31pendingMajor copyright-infringement settlement / verdict against frontier AI lab establishes new training-data licensing precedentHow: Settlement >=$1B or jury verdict against OpenAI/Anthropic/Meta/Google in NYT, Authors Guild, music-publishers, or analogous training-data lawsuit; alters de-facto economics of training-data acquisition and forces statutory clarificationSource: PACER federal court dockets; Copyright.gov AI consultationsconf 50%
- 2027-01-01 → 2030-12-31pendingCongress introduces AI-authorship / AI-inventorship statutory reform bill with bicameral sponsorshipHow: Bill introduced in both House and Senate proposing amendments to Title 17 (Copyright) or Title 35 (Patents) to define rights for AI-generated works; sponsored by majority party committee chair on Judiciary IP subcommitteesSource: Congress.gov; House/Senate Judiciary IP subcommittee docketsconf 30%
- 2029-01-13pendingQ1 window check-in (25%)
- 2027-01-01 → 2031-12-31pendingARC-AGI-2 / Frontier Math Tier 4 / Humanity's Last Exam achieves >=80% benchmark passage by frontier modelHow: Public leaderboard for ARC-AGI-2, Frontier Math Tier 4, or Humanity's Last Exam shows score >=80% by any model; per metadata watch_events these are the configured ASI proxies that gate the underlying claimSource: ARC-AGI-2 leaderboard; Frontier Math benchmarkconf 45%
- 2027-01-01 → 2032-12-31pendingSupreme Court accepts certiorari on a successor case to Thaler v. Perlmutter (overturning the March 2026 denial)How: SCOTUS grants cert on a new case raising AI authorship/inventorship; March 2 2026 Thaler v. Perlmutter cert denial established baseline that AI cannot be inventor/author. A reversal requires either (a) congressional statutory amendment or (b) a new case with stronger record reaching cert grant.Source: Holland & Knight 'Final Word? SCOTUS Refuses Thaler' (March 2026)conf 20%
- 2028-01-01 → 2034-12-31pendingFirst international IP treaty renegotiation explicitly addresses AI-generated works (WIPO or successor)How: WIPO General Assembly opens formal treaty-revision process for Berne Convention or Paris Convention specifically addressing AI authorship/inventorship; or G7/G20 IP communique commits to harmonized frameworkSource: WIPO General Assembly records; G7/G20 IP communiquesconf 35%
- 2031-09-29pendingQ2 window check-in (50%)
- 2034-06-14pendingQ3 window check-in (75%)
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| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | S_ASI_SLOW_2040PLUS ASI slow: post-2040 / soft takeoff | 60.0% | 0.700 | 0.050 | -0.131 |
| killer | TK03 AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | 10.0% | 0.050 | 0.700 | +0.064 |
| killer | TK01 AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | 15.0% | 0.050 | 0.700 | +0.031 |
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Prerequisites (3)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | S_ASI_SLOW_2040PLUS | ASI slow: post-2040 / soft takeoff | asi_recursive_self_improvement | — |
| killer | TK01 | AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | — | — |
| killer | TK03 | AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | — | — |
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Raw metadata
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