# Letter: What Happens Once You Give AI Agents Legal Identity

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Letter: What Happens Once You Give AI Agents Legal Identity

Canonical citation:
Yonathan A. Arbel, Simon Goldstein & Peter Salib, Letter: What Happens Once You Give AI Agents Legal Identity, Financial Times (2026).

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 links:
- https://www.ft.com/content/9451b5e9-035e-46e4-bafd-ede04dd13d8b