Legal Responsibilities Using Autonomous Agents For Artificial Intelligence

arXiv:2608.08022 · cs.AI, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-08-08 · Read on arXiv

Mark Burgess

cs.AI, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-08-08

Updated: 2026-08-11

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• AI Agents — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Artificial Intelligence — 7× in this paper
• Cooperation — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstention — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Axioms — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Causal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Composition — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Frustration — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models — 1× in this paper
• Localization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Papers — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Cooperation in Human and Machine Agents: Promise Theory Considerations

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