AI RESEARCH
The Law-Following AI Framework: Legal Foundations and Technical Constraints. Legal Analogues for AI Actorship and technical feasibility of Law Alignment
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2509.08009v2 Announce Type: replace-cross This paper critically evaluates the "Law-Following AI" (LFAI) framework proposed by O'Keefe, which seeks to embed legal compliance as a superordinate design objective for advanced AI agents and enable them to bear legal duties without acquiring the full rights of legal persons. Through comparative legal analysis, we identify current constructs of legal actors without full personhood, showing that the necessary infrastructure already exists.