Comparative study of the possibility of legal personality for intelligent agent In jurisprudence, Iranian law and Western law

Abstract

Artificial intelligence has entered many areas of human life and has created new legal challenges. Having legal personality is one of the theories in managing these challenges that has been proposed to justify the contracts concluded by intelligent systems based on the theory of representation. the attribution of civil liability resulting from the activities of intelligent systems to the intelligent systems themselves is another function to grant legal personality. However, a coherent and comprehensive study of the harmonization of the current rules of legal entities and its compliance with the features of intelligent agent has not been provided. This article seeks to answer the adequacy or inadequacy of theoretical foundations and legal resources to identify legal personality for intelligent agent, which has been written in a descriptive-analytical manner with a comparative study between jurisprudence, Iranian law and the West. The findings of this study show that each of these systems have significant theoretical foundations for having legal personality, but the status and characteristics of traditional legal entities are not equally applicable to the features of intelligent agent and if this structure not modified , the identification of legal personality for the systems, despite the alternative solutions, will cause legal confusion.