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.

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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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