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Comment by Yonathan A. Arbel

William Alfred Rose Professor of Law at the University of Alabama and director of its AI Legal Studies Initiative.
Yuval Noah Harari asks the right question and gives the wrong answer (“We must not grant AI agents legal personhood”). Argentina has just announced the world’s first legal regime for AI-run corporations, shortly after our team published the research explaining how such A-corps (short for algorithmic corporations) would work.
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Yonathan A. Arbel, Simon Goldstein, and Peter N. Salib, “What Happens Once You Give AI Agents Legal Identity,” Institute for Law & AI, June 2026. The published commentary identifies the authors, quotes Yuval Noah Harari’s position against granting AI agents legal personhood, calls that answer wrong, and discusses the legal regime for AI-run corporations (A-corps).
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AI agents should be granted legal personhood as non-human corporations
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