{"claim_id": "ft-letter-ai-legal-identity-001", "claim": "Letter to the editor responding to Yuval Noah Harari's objection to AI legal personhood. Argues that AI agents pursuing long-term goals can be disciplined through resource constraint: A-corps make agents visible and governable by giving the state the ability to see, tax, and seize their assets — legal personhood as a leash, not a master key.", "paper_id": "ft-letter-ai-legal-identity", "paper_title": "Letter: What Happens Once You Give AI Agents Legal Identity", "claim_type": "core_thesis", "evidence_quote": "Abstract: Letter to the editor responding to Yuval Noah Harari's objection to AI legal personhood. Argues that AI agents pursuing long-term goals can be disciplined through resource constraint: A-corps make agents visible and governable by giving the state the ability to see, tax, and seize their assets — legal personhood as a leash, not a master key.", "evidence_page": null, "evidence_span": "Abstract: Letter to the editor responding to Yuval Noah Harari's objection to AI legal personhood. Argues that AI agents pursuing long-term goals can be disciplined through resource constraint: A-corps make agents visible and governable by giving the state the ability to see, tax, and seize their assets — legal personhood as a leash, not a master key.", "source_text_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ft-letter-ai-legal-identity/fulltext_clean.txt", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ft-letter-ai-legal-identity/#claim-001", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Simon Goldstein & Peter Salib, Letter: What Happens Once You Give AI Agents Legal Identity, Financial Times (2026).", "topics": [], "secondary_topics": [], "human_reviewed": false, "confidence": "machine-linked", "limitations": "Machine-linked claim. Use the evidence quote and PDF before treating it as a quotation or as a complete statement of the paper's position."}