Editor’s Notes: This is a guest post by Lynn Yu Ling Ng, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics at York University, Canada. She has research expertise in global care labor migration, with an area focus on East Asia (Singapore and Taiwan). Her current research program advocates for migrant care workers and elderly communities in and beyond Canada.
An AI can’t sign a form, it can’t own property, and it cannot be a landlord.
It absolutely can. AI can be a decision maker for an LTD. I’m not saying it’s good, or it should be this way. But there’s nothing stopping it.
But a real person must be registered of the LTD?
I can spool up a bot, give it bitcoin, the bot can hire a lawyer to incorporate the LTD.
The article isn’t arguing that, it’s explaining how landlords are using AI tools to screen rental applicants and basing their decisions on the AI analysis of their profile.
Yet. If business entities are entitled to those things, no reason AI won’t be too.