Boudraa on AI and Temporary Legal Personality

Khaled Boudraa has posted Core Section: The Innovation -Temporary Legal Personality (TLP) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Temporary Legal Personality (TLP) is not a mere extension of existing personhood doctrines-it is a legal invention designed to meet the existential challenge posed by autonomous Artificial Intelligence. Traditional legal systems recognize two stable identities: the natural person, governed by biological and moral existence; and the juridical person, defined by institutional, economic, or contractual creation. Neither accommodates the unique, dynamic, and transient agency of AI systems. TLP introduces a third legal identity: one that is situational, event-based, and non-continuous. It activates only at the moment when an AI system performs an independent action-that is, a decision or behavior executed without human prompt, oversight, or anticipation-that causes legal consequences (harm, breach, violation, etc.). This concept rests on the philosophical and legal principle of functional subjectivity: the idea that legal identity can be temporarily constructed around a specific act or moment of agency for the sole purpose of accountability. It does not require full autonomy, self-awareness, or moral status-only the demonstration of legal causation independent of human intervention.

Very interesting.