Artificial Intelligence

Handmaid’s Tale author Atwood urges AI firms to honour copyrights

Booker winner Margaret Atwood, as well as writers such as Jonathan Franzen and James Patterson endorse open letter to AI companies

Margaret Atwood is among the writers calling on companies using AI to gain permission from their before using their work

Margaret Atwood is among thousands of authors backing an open letter urging AI firms to gain permission before incorporating copyrighted work into their technologies.

The Handmaid’s Tale writer and other high-profile names from the literary world such as James Patterson and Suzanne Collins have endorsed the open letter from the Authors Guild.

“Millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays, and poetry provide the ‘food’ for AI systems, endless meals for which there has been no bill,” ...