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Examining the Issues of Legal Personhood of Artificial Intelligence and Robots

EXAMINING THE ISSUES OF LEGAL PERSONHOOD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTS

Position paper ProfessionalEurope · HUadopted

This academic article examines the legal personhood of artificial intelligence and advanced robots under civil law, reviewing major theories such as e-personality, robot-slavery models, and corporate personhood. The author analyzes the components of legal personhood including legal capacity and competency, comparing them against the technical realities of AI systems. Ultimately, the paper concludes that granting legal personhood to AI is unnecessary and presents conceptual, ethical, and legal challenges within European and Hungarian civil law frameworks.

Summary and content fields are drawn from the document text and are pending editorial review.

Who issued it

University of MiskolcAcademic · HU
Publisher
Legal forceAspirational
Under whose authorityProfessional
Judged fromfull text

Who it governs

Researchers and academicsLegislatorsRegulators

Researchers, jurists, and policymakers interested in the intersection of civil law, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

Sectors
Research and science · legal research

What the document contains

What's covered

The document covers the conceptual and dogmatic basis for extending legal personhood to artificial intelligence and advanced robots, examining civil law doctrines, liability issues, and historical theories of legal entities. It reviews international definitions of AI and robots, analyzes the lack of transparency (black-box effect) and discretionary ability in algorithms, and briefly touches on transhumanism.

What's missing

The document does not provide binding statutory regulations, enforcement mechanisms, or concrete legislative proposals for lawmakers to adopt.

Key takeaways
  • Granting legal personhood to artificial intelligence and advanced robots is deemed unnecessary and problematic for current legal systems.
  • Civil law concepts of legal capacity and discretionary ability do not easily map onto autonomous software and hardware systems.
  • Existing theories like electronic personality or artificially intelligent companies face dogmatic and practical hurdles in European and Hungarian legal contexts.
  • Partial legal capacity (Teilrechtsfähigkeit) offers a conceptual bridge but remains outside current Hungarian statutory law.
  • Transhumanism and human enhancement technologies introduce future legal and ethical questions that will impact legal personhood and human rights.
Outline
· Introduction
· 1. Significance of legal personhood
· 2. Examination of legal personhood
  - 2.1. Legal personhood of natural persons
  - 2.2. The historical and theoretical roots of the legal persons and the legislation in force
· 3. Thoughts on transhumanism, human enhancement
· Closing remarks
Issued2019
Length9,035 words · 20 pages
FormatNot recorded
Scopenational

How it scores

Pending review

Each score is backed by a quote verified against the document text. Editorial review has not yet confirmed them.

Human Oversight

0/5

Humans remain in control of consequential decisions

2.1. Legal personhood of natural persons

screening score · 2026-10-23

Privacy

1/5

Protection of personal data and private life

Our study does not include liability and privacy questions but the significance of them cannot be neglected.

Introduction

screening score · 2026-10-23

Enforcement

0/5

Consequences and compliance mechanisms with real force

Closing remarks

screening score · 2026-10-23

Topics

artificial_intelligence legal_personhood civil_liability robotics transhumanism