LRC AI Speaker Series: AI and Agency Law
Christina Lee, Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Privacy and Technology Law Fellow at the George Washington University School of Law, will join us to discuss ways the structure of agency law can be adapted to meet the challenges of new artificial intelligence agents.
With the rise of AI agents—AI systems that can plan and perform complex tasks on behalf of their users—many are turning to agency law as a potential analytical and regulatory framework to govern this new technology. However, examining how AI agents are built and used reveals a critical challenge: the persistent, extensive, obscured, though incomplete influence that developers have over AI agents makes them what Lee calls the shadow principals of AI agents, a type of entity that existing tools of agency law are not equipped to handle.

