Does the university need an ‘arts and crafts’ movement in response to generative AI?
Abstract
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.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Digital Education and Society
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Digital Media and Philosophy
Publication details
- Journal / source
- JME Practical Bioethics
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- e000196–e000196
- Publication date
- 1 April 2026
- Language
- EN