Progress and Protection: ICESCR Article 15, AI Authorship, and the Rights the U.S. Has Not Ratified

ICESCR Article 15 establishes three intertwined rights: participation in cultural life, enjoyment of scientific progress, and protection of authors' material interests. AI sits at the intersection of all three — as an application of scientific progress, as a tool reshaping cultural participation, and as a technology trained on creative work whose authors received no compensation. The United…