Tomorrow in NYC I'll be attending Techonomy 25: Human Agency Meets Machine Autonomy, hosted by Union Square Ventures, at Civic Hall.
This conference brings together voices from across technology, policy, and business to explore how humans and machines will coexist (and collaborate) in the next chapter of innovation.
To borrow from one of the questions posed ahead of the event that caught my attention:
What role do AI patents play in fostering innovation rather than stifling it?
It's a timely and important question. AI is rewriting the boundaries of invention itself, including what it means to "create," who owns the output, and how traditional IP frameworks apply as AI-enabled tools increasingly become part of the inventor's toolkit. The answers aren't always simple. But the implications for innovation, and how patents serve to promote it, are enormous.
I'm looking forward to hearing how leaders in tech and IP are approaching this tension between protection and progress—and what that balance might look like in practice.