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Comment by Philip Maymin

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Economist and finance professor writing on financial and legal personhood.
Financial capacity, the conjunction of property ownership, contractual capacity, and risk-bearing, is a sufficient practical basis for the agency bundle of legal personhood: the capacities to own, contract, and bear risk, together with the protections these entail.
AI Verified (Jun 1, 2026)
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Philip Maymin, “Financial Personhood,” SSRN, June 1, 2026.
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AI agents should be granted legal personhood as non-human corporations
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AI Verified Quote argues that AI agents can be conferred legal personality; directly bears on granting it. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago
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AI Verified SSRN’s Financial Personhood (June 1, 2026) contains this wording and attributes it to Philip Maymin. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago
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