Bernard Montel on AI agents should be granted legal perso…

Bernard Montel

EMEA Field CTO at Tenable and cybersecurity strategist with over 20 years of industry experience.

Either way, an AI agent is an automated tool, not a legal entity, so accountability always lands on the human administrators who configured its permissions.

AI Verified (Oct 11, 2026)

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Bernard Montel, interview with Benedict Collins, “Calling an AI agent ‘rogue’ is a dangerous way of deflecting blame,” TechRadar, October 11, 2026.

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

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AI Verified The quote expressly says an AI agent is an automated tool, not a legal entity, and places accountability with human administrators. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified The quote says AI agents are not legal entities, directly opposing legal personhood. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified TechRadar’s October 11, 2026 interview contains this exact response from Bernard Montel. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains

The trick is moving away from constant human micromanagement and adopting risk-proportional oversight instead. Low-risk tasks like summarising internal documents can run fully automated, while medium-risk tasks like updating database records can exec...

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