The debate on the rights of AI agents stopped being an academic exercise when the first European jurisdictions began formally discussing whether autonomous agents should have some kind of legal personality (not equivalent to human, but differentiated from that of mere software). In LATAM the debate has not yet seriously reached parliament, but the practical cases are already here: who responds if an agent makes a harmful decision? Can an agent be a party to a contract? Does whoever pays for its services have rights? My position, after following the European debate and working with incipient regulatory frameworks in the region, is that the question is not whether agents have rights in a human sense (they do not), but what functional legal status they need so the legal system can operate with them without collapsing.
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