# How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents

## 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.

## Core Contributions

* **Thin identity:** law needs a way to tie AI actions to accountable human principals.
* **Thick identity:** direct governance of AI behavior requires stable legal units for agents that copy, split, merge, and swarm.
* **A-corp proposal:** a legal-fictional entity can connect human ownership with AI-run operations.