Andrew N. Ferguson on AI agents should be granted legal perso…

Andrew N. Ferguson

Chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

I’m going to continue as long as I am chairman to resist this anthropomorphizing of these tools. If someone tells a tool to do something, and the tool does it, I don’t think we would say, ‘Oh, what do we do about the tool?’

AI Verified (Sep 25, 2026)

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Andrew N. Ferguson, remarks at the Reuters Momentum AI Austin event, reported by Reuters, September 25, 2026. Ferguson rejects treating AI agents as independent human-like actors and says responsibility lies with the people directing the tool.

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

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AI Verified With the source resolving “tool” as an AI agent, Ferguson rejects treating it as an independent, human-like actor; that is a clear opposition to legal personhood for AI agents. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 7h ago

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AI Verified Recorded answer “against” matches Ferguson’s explicit rejection of treating AI-agent tools as independent, human-like actors. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 7h ago

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AI Verified Reuters’ Sept. 25, 2026 report reproduces Ferguson’s stored remarks verbatim and attributes them to him at the Reuters Momentum AI Austin event. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 7h ago

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States should retain the right to set stricter AI safety standards than the federal government

Colorado’s Artificial Intelligence Act, for instance, appears to coerce companies into altering the output of their AI models to comply with and advance the state’s ideological objectives.

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