Mind children: the future of robot and human intelligence
Mind children: the future of robot and human intelligence
Artificial life meets entertainment: lifelike autonomous agents
Communications of the ACM
Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue: adaptive intelligent agents
Robot: mere machine to transcendent mind
Robot: mere machine to transcendent mind
Avatars!; Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet
Avatars!; Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet
Autonomous Virtual Actors Based on Virtual Sensors
Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors, Towards Autonomous Personality Agents
Semantic Information Processing
Semantic Information Processing
Experience-based reinforcement learning to acquire effective behavior in a multi-agent domain
PRICAI'00 Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Rim international conference on Artificial intelligence
Buddy bots: how turing's fast friends are undermining consumer privacy
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments - Special section: Legal, ethical, and policy issues associated with virtual environments and computer mediated reality
Contracting agents: legal personality and representation
Artificial Intelligence and Law
The conclusion of contracts by software agents in the eyes of the law
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
Cognitive automata and the law: electronic contracting and the intentionality of software agents
Artificial Intelligence and Law
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A software agent is a computer program that operates within computing environments. The owners of software agents may instruct their agents to roam the networks, access desired information by exchanging data with other agents or people, and handle business and personal transactions. As the interactions between software agents and humans become more frequent, it is relevant to ask whether there are any issues of law that may guide their interactions and conduct. For example, as the agents become more intelligent and autonomous, who will be responsible for the mistakes that software agents make? Will software agents be allowed to contract with humans and with each other, and if so will such contracts be enforceable? And, will software agents have standing to sue and be sued? While there are a host of legal issues associated with software agents operating within virtual environments, the main issue addressed in this paper is whether software agents should be granted the legal rights associated with personhood. After discussing basic characteristics of software agents, and personhood in general, the paper concludes by outlining three possible scenarios that could represent the legal status of software agents in the future; these include the current status quo of property, the status of an indentured servant, and the status and associated rights of legal personhood.