In an unprecedented push for deregulation, Argentine President Javier Milei has introduced legislation to permit fully autonomous, AI-operated corporations.
Argentine President Javier Milei has submitted a groundbreaking legislative proposal to Congress that could make Argentina the first nation to legalize "non-human corporations" run entirely by artificial intelligence. Under this proposed legal framework, these entities would be operated autonomously by AI agents or robots, rendering human shareholders completely optional. Promoted in a high-profile Financial Times op-ed, Mileiโs radical pitch aims to transform Argentina into a global tax haven for tech giants by keeping AI entirely unregulated, promising a massive leap in productivity by freeing enterprise from the constraints of the human brain.
The bold initiative has sparked immediate international backlash from legal experts and ethicists, who warn that granting legal personhood to AI-controlled entities creates a dangerous loophole of "programmed impunity." Critics, including prominent historian Yuval Noah Harari, argue that allowing software to execute contracts, manage funds, and carry out business operations without a designated human owner shifts liability to unaccountable machines, potentially giving rogue AI agents dangerous access to global financial and political systems. As tech leaders eye the South American nation as a regulatory escape hatch, the proposal forces a global reckoning over the future of corporate responsibility.
source: Landymore, F. (2026). Argentina Moves to Legalize 'Non-Human Corporations' Run by AI. Futurism.
ALT In an unprecedented push for deregulation, Argentine President Javier Milei has introduced legislation to permit fully autonomous, AI-operated corporations.
Argentine President Javier Milei has submitted a groundbreaking legislative proposal to Congress that could make Argentina the first nation to legalize "non-human corporations" run entirely by artificial intelligence. Under this proposed legal framework, these entities would be operated autonomously by AI agents or robots, rendering human shareholders completely optional. Promoted in a high-profile Financial Times op-ed, Mileiโs radical pitch aims to transform Argentina into a global tax haven for tech giants by keeping AI entirely unregulated, promising a massive leap in productivity by freeing enterprise from the constraints of the human brain.