Karsten Brensing on AI agents should be granted legal perso…

Karsten Brensing

German marine biologist, behavioral researcher and author

This article advances limited legal personhood as a functional governance instrument for advanced AI systems. [...] it proposes a two-tier corporate architecture.

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AI agents should be granted legal personhood as non-human corporations

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AI Verified Yes—though it is qualified support rather than an unlimited version of the claim. In the abstract and introduction, the paper presents its central thesis as advancing limited legal personhood for advanced AI systems and implementing it through a two-tier corporate architecture in which AI systems operate through purpose-bound companies under human-controlled holding structures. That makes the author’s supportive position on granting AI legal personhood in corporate form clear. ([arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12505)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The author is supportive: the abstract says the article "advances limited legal personhood" for advanced AI systems and proposes a "two-tier corporate architecture," which strongly implies support for granting AI a corporate-style legal personhood, though in a limited, functional governance form rather than full moral personhood. ([arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12505)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified On the arXiv abstract page and PDF, the abstract contains the quoted first sentence and then continues with “Drawing on organizational law, it proposes a two-tier corporate architecture…,” so the user’s ellipsis is a faithful omission rather than an alteration. Both sources list Karsten Brensing as the sole author, and the arXiv page shows the date as Sat Mar 14 2026, matching the stored author, date, and source URL. ([arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12505)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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Given irreducible epistemic uncertainty regarding artificial consciousness and the prospect of high-impact harms, the precautionary principle supports institutional design rather than regulatory inaction.

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