Peter N. Salib on AI agents should be granted legal perso…

Peter N. Salib

Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center researching constitutional law, economics, and artificial intelligence.

We call for a new corporate form, the A-corp (short for algorithmic corporation): Owned by humans, run by AIs. [...] An A-corp is a corporation. It can hold property, make enforceable contracts, and sue and be sued in its own name.

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Peter N. Salib, with Yonathan A. Arbel and Simon Goldstein, “Why Law Needs a New Entity to Govern AI Agents,” Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, June 15, 2026. The co-authors propose an “A-corp” (algorithmic corporation) that is owned by humans but run by AI agents, and explain that it can hold property, contract, and sue or be sued.

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

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