> an AI could only own the copyright of its own work if it was conscious and sentient. Exactly the point I was making above. And I don't like using the term "A

> an AI could only own the copyright of its own work if it was conscious and sentient. Exactly the point I was making above. And I don't like using the term "AI" for it. Not only it usually simply means the field of study, but intelligence refers to the faculty of the mind, not to the mind itself. If you want to refer to such sentient entity, better to call it artificial mind.