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:iif 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.
Timothy Daly (Wed,) studied this question.