A legal theory for autonomous artificial agents2011

"As corporations and government agencies replace human employees with online customoer service and automated phone systems, we become accustomed to doing business with nonhuman agents. If artificial intelligence (AI) technology advances as today's leading researchers predict, these agents may soon function with such limited human input that they appear to act independently. When they achieve that level of autonomy, what legal status should they have?"-- c Provided by publisher.