Andrew Pery on AI agents should be granted legal perso…

Andrew Pery

AI Ethics Evangelist at ABBYY, writing on responsible AI and technology policy.

AI systems are none of these things. They cannot own property, file returns, or respond to enforcement. Granting legal personality to AI might seem innovative, but machines cannot be punished or compensate victims. Worse still, shifting liability to AI could allow the humans and corporations who design and profit from these systems to escape accountability entirely.

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Andrew Pery, “Can we tax the robots?”, TechRadar, May 7, 2026.

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

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