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Comment by Jorge Costa Oliveira

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Portuguese lawyer and former government official writing on technology, law, and international affairs.
If nothing else, such a move could serve as a way for tech oligarchs and major technology companies to shield themselves from civil or criminal liability arising from the actions of AI systems they created.
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Jorge Costa Oliveira, “Banning legal personhood for AI,” Macau Daily Times, March 31, 2026.
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AI agents should be granted legal personhood as non-human corporations
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