Governing agentic AI

Short summary

Shruti Rajagopalan's new paper examines regulatory challenges posed by AI agents that transact and act on external systems without real-time human approval. It critiques the growing literature proposing legal personhood for AI agents, arguing that personhood is neither necessary nor sufficient. The paper reframes the governance question from assigning legal status to designing effective enforcement mechanisms.

• •AI agents now act autonomously on external systems, creating regulatory gaps
• •Legal personhood for AI agents is critiqued as neither necessary nor sufficient
• •Paper shifts focus from legal status to enforcement mechanism design

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