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Claim. The Article resolves agent identity by legal stipulation rather than metaphysics: the legal subject is the registered record, continued by a recorded learning update within a prescribed granularity or by a recorded continuity transition, and only while the signing key stays within the registered configuration.

Type. design · Support. stated

Holds when

• individuation of intelligent agents
• recorded learning update within the prescribed granularity, or a recorded continuity transition
• signing key remains within the registered configuration

Source quote

The Article fixes the legal subject by rule: it is the registered record.

From. Wulf A. Kaal, Should an Intelligent Agent Have Legal Rights? (2026). Full text.

Cite as. Wulf A. Kaal, Should an Intelligent Agent Have Legal Rights? (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7596939

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