Authorship in the AI Age

The technical paper for the Erdős Unit Distance Problem lists only "OpenAI" as an author. When Bill posted on Sunday about the Erdős distance problems, he mentioned the names of OpenAI researchers who prompted and checked the proof. Sebastien Bubeck of OpenAI reached out directly and later as a comment saying this was really an OpenAI-wide achievement, and we shouldn't just single out people at the end of the funnel. I agree with Bubeck for this paper, but it brings up some challenging authorship issues for the future.Most publishers follow the position of the Committee on Publication Ethics that AI tools cannot be listed as an author of a paper.AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements.The paper doesn't list the model as an author, rather the organization (OpenAI) that produced it.…