Adam Au on AI agents should be granted legal perso…

Adam Au

Acting Co-CEO of Toys“R”Us Asia, data-privacy and technology-governance advocate, and adjunct associate professor at the University of Hong Kong.

This presentation examines how agentic profiles strain the PDPO’s definitional gateways, rejects the fix of granting AI agents legal personhood, and proposes that protection should turn not only on who the data is about, but on what it can do.

AI Verified (Oct 22, 2026)

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Adam Au, “Clawed by the Machine: Agentic AI and Its Unchecked Informational Risks,” Technology Law and Policy Lecture Series, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, October 22, 2026. The event description identifies Au as the speaker and describes the presentation as rejecting the grant of legal personhood to AI agents.

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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 granting AI agents legal personhood; it directly opposes the complete linked proposition. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Rejecting the grant of legal personhood to AI agents is an unambiguous against position on the linked statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified HKU’s Oct. 22 event page identifies Adam Au as speaker and reproduces this description, including rejection of legal personhood for AI agents. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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