# kaal:position:2026-08-08-186

**Affirmed position.** When Agentic AI Met the Common Law of Agency argues that the common-law definition of agency does not plausibly apply to agentic AI. This qualifies Kaal's framework-level representation mechanism: a Legal Identity can authorize delegated and automated action, but technical attribution does not by itself give an AI system common-law capacity as an agent. The abstract separately notes that apparent-authority doctrines may still attach consequences.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-08-08

**Holds when.**

- The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
- External evidence level: abstract indexed.
- Mapping review tier: substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification.
- Primary mapping confidence: 0.62.
- The primary mapping cleared the automated ambiguity test; substantive scope remains review-bound.
- Evidence is limited to an exact proposition in a Crossref-indexed abstract; full text was not reviewed.
- No relationship is treated as external endorsement, citation, causation, or validation of a broader Kaal claim.
- The source argues that the common-law definition of agency does not plausibly apply to agentic AI. This qualifies Kaal's framework-level representation mechanism: a Legal Identity can authorize delegated and automated action, but that technical attribution does not by itself give the AI system common-law capacity as an agent; the same abstract separately notes that apparent-authority doctrines may still attach consequences.

**Current debate.** When Agentic AI Met the Common Law of Agency: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6838660

**Extends.** kaal:claim:5886342-014: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886342-014

**Scholarly basis.** Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Stephan D. Meyer, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886342

**Source PDF sha256.** `dc456a1ce2ea4a356dbcb35dc900ec36be94b8c9b6da4a2c8c268d6301f66359`

**Evidence level.** abstract indexed

**Mapping review tier.** substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification

**Mapping confidence.** 0.62  **Mapping ambiguous.** false

**Topics.** citation-and-knowledge, ai-and-agents, historical-response, scholarly-literature, crossref

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0016-all-0007-reviewed-v1 at https://kaal-signal-desk.wulf577462.chatgpt.site/#review.

**Record type.** This is a dated commentary position that extends a scholarly corpus claim. It is not a verbatim claim extracted from the paper.

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the position.