# How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents — one-page summary

**Paper ID:** `ssrn-6273198`
**Year:** 2026
**Author(s):** Yonathan Arbel, Simon Goldstein, Peter N. Salib
**SSRN:** https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6273198

## TL;DR

The Article diagnoses the legal problem of identifying AI agents. It distinguishes thin identification, which ties every AI action to a human principal for accountability, from thick identification, which treats AI agents as persistent units with coherent goals. It proposes the Algorithmic Corporation, or A-corp, as a legal-fictional entity that can own property, contract, and litigate while being run by AIs and owned by humans.

## Keywords

AI agents; individuation; liability; algorithmic corporation; agency law; artificial intelligence governance

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