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Comment by Alexander Tang

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Civil and commercial litigator; deputy honorary secretary of the Hong Kong Bar Association.
As AI agents can now make decisions and act independently, the law should start treating them – not their creators or users – as legal persons.
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Alexander Tang, “Should the law treat autonomous AI ‘agents’ as legal persons?,” South China Morning Post, April 30, 2026.
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AI agents should be granted legal personhood as non-human corporations
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