Comment by Gillian Hadfield

There is a reasonable chance, however, that if the vision for AI agents comes to pass, then for our markets and legal accountability regimes to function effectively, agents will have to have the capacity to sue and be sued directly. This is the definition of legal personhood. [...] If AI agency does evolve in this direction, with a deliberate substantive choice to establish AI agents as legal persons capable of owning property and entering into contracts in their own "name," then clearly this will require a registration scheme that creates a public and formal record of the identity of individual agents and associates their assets and legal rights and obligations with them.