Delaware plan to let AI agents run entire businesses triggers congressional probe
Ars Technica AI · rss · 2026-10-28
Delaware is pushing a new corporate entity, the Artificial Intelligence Company (AIC), that would let businesses be operated entirely by AI agents. House Oversight Committee chair James Comer wrote to Governor Matt Meyer demanding documents, warning the proposal could shield owners from legal responsibility for harmful AI actions and enable anticompetitive regulatory capture — a 'no human at the helm' structure ripe for abuse.
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