Rebecca Parry on AI agents should be granted legal perso…

Rebecca Parry

Professor at Nottingham Law School and co-director of its Centre for Law, Emerging Technologies and Business; teaches AI legal aspects and writes on law and technology.

Agentic AI has no legal personality. As the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce's July 2026 Legal Statement on Liability for AI Harms confirms, an AI system cannot itself be liable; responsibility attaches to a legal person through ordinary principles, primarily contract and, failing that, negligence.

AI Verified (Sep 14, 2026)

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Professor Rebecca Parry, “Who is liable when AI breaks the law?”, Nottingham Trent University, September 14, 2026, lines 58–59.

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

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AI Verified Parry explicitly says agentic AI has no legal personality and cannot itself be liable. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified Parry says agentic AI has no legal personality; recorded answer against is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified Nottingham Trent University article (Sept. 14, 2026) attributes the exact text to Professor Rebecca Parry. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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