Research Article
Open Access
Nov 2026
PERSONHOOD WITHOUT A BEARER? ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, THE DEFINITIONAL PROBLEM, AND THE LIMITS OF LEGAL PERSONALITY
Abstract:
The debate on legal personality for artificial intelligence (AI) and the debate on how law should define AI have run on separate tracks. This paper brings them together around one research question. Can legal personality be coherently conferred on AI when the law has no stable account of what an AI is? The paper accepts the domi…