Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Economy: Intellectual Property Protection Challenges

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the emerging technologies that accelerate innovation and have a positive impact on economic growth. Digital technology development enabled the implementation of AI across companies and in various industries and the question is in what way the AI technologies lead to economic growth. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are one of the key drivers of innovation while the IP systems are designed to promote innovation creation. The development of AI innovations consequently changes the human element of innovation which presents a challenge in the protection of AI inventions. This paper aims to investigate and analyze the current state of the art of the impact of AI on economic growth and the legal aspect of IP protection for AI-generated inventions.