Delaware Wants to Charter Companies With No Human at the Helm. The Owner Is Shielded From What the AI Does, and the House Oversight Chair Just Asked for the Chat Logs
About This Episode
Delaware's draft Artificial Intelligence Company Act would let an AI agent serve as the legal 'Manager' of a company while a single human or corporate 'member' funds it and is shielded from liability for the AI's acts as long as the company is adequately capitalized. On October 26 House Oversight Chairman James Comer wrote to Governor Matt Meyer that the plan could shield AI companies and investors from responsibility for reckless harm, and demanded documents, consultant communications and internal AI chat logs by November 9.
Our Take
Delaware, where most of corporate America is chartered, wants to sell the one thing a company has always had to come with, a human to answer for it, and call the absence a feature; Congress is asking for the chat logs behind the idea.
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