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Why not setup a corporation for the AI to file the patents. This would have corporate personhood and represent the AI.

• bdowling 5y ago
  In the U.S., the inventor must be a natural person. The owner, however, is often a corporation (e.g., when an employee invents something in the scope of employment). In that case the owner corporation applies for the patent in the inventor's name, but it will own all the rights in the patent. The inventor usually signs an inventor declaration. In other countries the inventor can be a corporation. There are some cases where this matters (e.g., disputes over inventorship or ownership of the invention of an employee), but in most cases it probably doesn't matter.
• Vespasian 5y ago
  As others have said, he is specifically trying to get an AI recognized as an Inventor instead of a human (where that is required). The invention does not seem to be important to him at all. He is filling similar cases all around the the globe and is (mostly) loosing. It remains unclear whether his motivation is financial or ideological or something different all together.