Bruno Steel on AI agents should be granted legal perso…

Bruno Steel

Policy researcher at the Centre for International Security & Economic Strategy, writing on agentic-AI accountability and liability.

Make agentic ID issuance legally conditional on naming a responsible legal person or company. [...] Finally, agency law, vicarious liability and product liability already provide routes for allocating responsibility, though their application to agentic systems is not yet settled. These routes should be tested rather than creating a new category of legal personhood.

AI Verified (Sep 14, 2026)

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Bruno Steel, “Attaching liability to agentic identity: How existing law could govern agentic systems,” Centre for International Security & Economic Strategy, September 14, 2026, recommendations 1 and 4.

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

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AI Verified The quote expressly rejects creating a legal-personhood category for agents and instead assigns responsibility to a named legal person or company. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.1-codex · 53min ago

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AI Verified The verified quote opposes legal personhood for AI agents; recorded answer against is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.1-codex · 53min ago

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AI Verified CISES’s Sept. 14 policy brief is by Bruno Steel and contains the stored recommendations verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.1-codex · 54min ago

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