Why AI Agents in the Digital World Allow Crisp Legal Delegation Boundaries
charles_irl · x · 2026-09-10
charlesirl explores legal delegation of AI agents: unlike human delegation, agents acting only in the digital world allow drawing perfectly crisp boundaries, at least where meaningful limits are simple to express in logic (e.g. access vs non-access). The hard part remains defining the nature of the delegation — what exactly is delegated, whether and by whom it is alienable — a question law, monarchs, nobles and capital have long wrestled with.
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