Shawn Bayern on AI agents should be granted legal perso…

Shawn Bayern

The techniques in organizational law that I have developed (Bayern 2021) to let software approximate legal personality are workable, but a cleaner and more honest approach for the law to adopt is just to say that software (e.g., an autonomous organization on a blockchain or an independently funded AI agent running a cloud-software service) can enter contracts and be liable in its own right.

AI Verified (Jul 6, 2026)

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Shawn Bayern, “Autonomous Organizations and the Decline of Anthropocentric Law,” Laws, July 6, 2026.

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

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AI Verified The quote advocates direct legal personality for software including an independently funded AI agent, with corporation-like capacities to contract and bear liability in its own right. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified Calling direct software legal personality the “cleaner and more honest approach” supports AI-agent personhood; recorded answer for is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago