What Happens Once You Give AI Agents Legal Identity
This letter was originally published in the Financial Times.
Yuval Noah Harari asks the right question and gives the wrong answer (“We must not grant AI agents legal personhood”, Opinion, June 8). 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. Harari asks what sanction could ever hold a non-human corporation in check. His answer is that none can, because the threat that disciplines human executives (prison) means nothing to a machine.