Deborah DeMott, ‘When Agentic AI Met the Common Law of Agency’, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (forthcoming, 2026), available at SSRN (27 May 2026). Professor Deborah DeMott’s article ‘When Agentic AI Met the Common Law of Agency’ is a much needed breath of fresh, cold air in the overheated, overhyped debates surrounding Agentic AI. Scholars and regulators are often seduced by the sales talk coming out of Silicon Valley and, more importantly, assume that just because a particular type of software is referred to as ‘agent’, it must (or should?) be an agent in the legal sense. DeMott, who served as sole Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Agency (2006), cuts through the nonsense and describes ‘Agentic AI’ as a tool that can operate autonomously and complete tasks without direct human input or continuous supervision … (more)
[Eliza Mik, JOTWELL, 5 October 2026]
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