The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Rights: An Exploration of the Mexican and Costa Rican Contexts

¹ MioCorp, Ensenada, Mexico
² Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico
³ Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

^* Corresponding author: cagelopez@miocorp.com.mx

Abstract

The vertiginous advance of the digital economy at a global level represents significant challenges for humans from the technological, social, and cultural perspectives, especially the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies such as Neurotechnology, the Metaverse, and Blockchain, to mention some of the most important ones. Intellectual property (IP) rights acquire relevance in terms of the work, creativity, inventiveness, and authorship of products and services available to human beings. This paper aims to identify challenges to the use and applications of Artificial Intelligence concerning moral, ethical, and economic rights that emerge from the interactions between the physical and digital worlds. We argue in this contribution that, on the one hand, the nature and implications of AI require in-depth analysis and discussion; on the other hand, the possible associated repercussions on IP rights are minimized, ignored, and, in most cases, are unknown. As a result of our study, we identified the impacts, benefits, and risks of implementing AI applications in Mexico and Costa Rica.