Episode #222: James Boyle

In Episode #222, author and professor James Boyle joins Osi to discuss how AI’s growing ability to imitate human intelligence challenges our understanding of what it means to be a "person," pushing us to rethink the legal and moral lines that separate humans and intelligent machines.Free link to The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=faculty_booksJames Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. He joined the faculty in July 2000. He has also taught at American University, Yale, Harvard, Boston University, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, and Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society and the editor of Critical Legal Studies (Dartmouth/NYU Press), Collected Papers on the Public Domain, and the co-editor of Cultural Environmentalism @ 10 (with Larry Lessig). He has also published two graphic novels: Bound By Law, on fair use and the permissions culture in intellectual property, and Theft: A History of Music, a 2000 year long history of musical borrowing from Plato to rap, and an open access casebook on Intellectual Property (all with Jennifer Jenkins).  His newspaper articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek and the Economist. Professor Boyle teaches Intellectual Property, Law and Literature, Jurisprudence and Torts.