AI Safety Asia and Future of Life Institute file amicus brief backing publishers in OpenAI case
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What happened
On 30 October 2026, a group of 17 amici curiae led by AI Safety Asia filed a 30-page proposed amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment in *In re OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation*, No. 1:25-md-03143 (S.D.N.Y., Judge Sidney H. Stein), docket entry 2421-1 (also filed as document 1811-1 in case 1:23-cv-11195).
Who filed it
The amici are AI Safety Asia, Brian J. A. Boyd, the Buddhism & AI Initiative, Cara Project, Charles Camosy, David Atkinson, EdTech Law Center PLLC, the Future of Life Institute, Irreplaceable, John C. Havens, Noesis Collaborative, Progressive Democrats of America, the RadicalxChange Foundation, the Tech Oversight Project, Walter Scheirer and the Young People's Alliance. David Atkinson, who has written extensively on the legal implications of generative AI, is the lead author. The brief states the amici represent no specific commercial interest or party to the litigation.
What the brief argues
The brief attacks what it calls "GenAI exceptionalism" - the idea that AI training deserves different copyright treatment from human learning. Its central points are that AI systems learning from patterns is not relevantly different from how humans learn; that AI models cannot obtain facts from works without also consuming their expression; that the inefficient learning of AI systems should not excuse further infringement; and that there is no implied licence to reproduce the plaintiffs' works, because publicly available is not the same as public domain. The brief argues the defendants' large-scale scraping differs from traditional search engines and undermines the economics of the internet, and warns that if the court affirms GenAI exceptionalism it will undermine progress in science and the useful arts.