I'll respond first, if that's okay.
Yes, you might be ahead of your time.
I would say a couple of things. As a general matter, copyright law has always struggled with new and emerging technologies. Part of the reason is that copyright law is inherently retrospective. It's backward-looking. It's oriented around precedent and analogizing and distinguishing to things that have come before. The nature of emerging technology is that it's forward-looking. It's innovative. It throws us into new and unanticipated kinds of situations.
I would say there's always a tension between copyright and emerging technology. Figuring out how to recalibrate the balance every time an innovative or disruptive technology comes along is always a challenge, whether it's the player piano or whether it's AI.
With AI specifically, the copyright issues have not been borne out yet. I think a lot of it comes down to how the data that's being used in these processes is oftentimes protected and the outputs are oftentimes potentially infringing. That's sort of the area where as a researcher I look at copyright implications of AI. That doesn't necessarily tie into interoperability, aside from the issues around whether researchers are able to analyze these technologies, as I mentioned earlier.