False agency in artificial intelligence

Shawn Bayern

Chapter Chapter 12 in Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence, 2025, pp 232-249 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter discusses the modern state of language models and chatbots, with an eye to drawing a distinction between the two and considering the relevance of that distinction for views of modern artificially intelligent system as agents, particularly as legal agents. The chapter argues that neither contemporary language models nor contemporary chatbots are usefully conceived as agents and that they currently pose little challenge to the common law’s traditional concepts of agency. The chapter also considers other kinds of interactions between language models and law, and it suggests some implications for legal theory.

Keywords: Agency; Anthropomorphized chatbot; Large language model; Chatbots; Personhood; Artificial intelligence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035316489
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