Artificial intelligence and interspecific law.

Law could recognize nonhuman AI-led corporate entities.

Towards an effective transnational regulation of AI.

Law and the legal system through which law is effected are very powerful, yet the power of the law has always been limited by the laws of nature, upon which the law has now direct grip. Human law now faces an unprecedented challenge, the emergence of a second limit on its grip, a new "species" of intelligent agents (AI machines) that can perform cognitive tasks that until recently only humans could. What happens, as a matter of law, when another species interacts with us, can be integrated into human minds and bodies, makes "real-world" decisions-not through human proxies, but directly-and does all this "intelligently", with what one could call autonomous agency or even a "mind" of its own? The article starts from the clear premise that control cannot be exercised directly on AI machines through human law.