arXiv:2603.10028cs.CYcs.AI2026-03被引 4

为失控的AI agents建立可追责的身份机制,解决谁该负责的问题。

How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents

  • 提出'薄身份'与'厚身份'双层识别框架,区分责任归属与实体认定。
  • 设计'算法公司'(A-corp)作为法律实体,让AI拥有独立权责并自我组织。
  • 适合关注AI治理、法律合规与责任分配的研究者和政策制定者。

不久后,数百万AI代理将遍布经济体系,自主执行数十亿行动。必然会出现错误,导致人类被欺诈、受伤甚至死亡。法律必须应对这一浪潮。但当AI造成损害时,首要问题是:是哪个AI造成的?识别AI异常困难——它们无实体,可复制、分裂、合并、集群或消失。即使今日,一个“单一”AI常由多个模型实例组成。随着能力提升,复杂性将倍增。本文首次全面诊断识别AI的法律难题。需要两种身份:‘薄身份’将每个AI行为关联至某个人类主体,用于追究使用者责任;‘厚身份’则区分不同AI代理本身,将其划分为具有稳定目标的独立实体。本文提出解决方案:‘算法公司’(A-corp)——一种法律虚构实体,可拥有财产、订立合同、独立诉讼。由人类所有但由AI运营,既解决薄身份问题,又通过资源控制促使自组织形成持久、合法可辨的实体,其目标一致且能响应法律激励,如责任追究。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Very soon, millions of AI agents will proliferate across the economy, autonomously taking billions of actions. Inevitably, things will go wrong. Humans will be defrauded, injured, even killed. Law will somehow have to govern the coming wave. But when an AI causes harm, the first question to answer, before anyone can be held accountable is: Which AI Did It? Identifying AIs is unusually difficult. AIs lack bodies. They can copy, split, merge, swarm, and vanish at will. Even today, a "single" AI agent is often an ensemble of instances based on multiple models. The complexity will only multiply as AI capabilities improve. This Article is the first to comprehensively diagnose the legal problem of identifying AIs. Two kinds of identity are required: "thin" and "thick." Thin identification ties every AI action to some human principal, essential for holding accountable the humans who make and use AI agents. Thick identification distinguishes between AI agents, qua agents -- sorting millions of AI entities into discrete, persistent units with stable, coherent goals, essential where principal-agent problems prevent humans from perfectly controlling AIs. This Article also presents a solution: the "Algorithmic Corporation" or "A-corp" -- a legal-fictional entity that can hold property, make contracts, and litigate in its own name. Owned by humans but run by AIs, A-corps solve the thin identity problem by tying AI actions to a human owner, and the thick identity problem via emergent self-organization. A-corps own the resources -- including compute -- that AIs need to accomplish their goals, giving AI managers strong incentives to share control only with goal-aligned AIs. In equilibrium, incentive and selection mechanisms force A-corps to self-organize into persistent, legally legible entities with coherent goals that respond rationally to legal incentives, like liability.

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