CIL Visiting Associate Research Professor Jon Truby’s co-authored article entitled ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization and AI Legal Personhood' has been published in Oxford Intersections: AI in Society (Oxford University Press, 2025).

The article will inform consideration of a unified approach to the legal status of a DAO and Artificial Intelligence under international law, and perhaps the potential of future robots to claim rights under international law especially whenever they are denied such rights under domestic law. This article argues that since a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) can be granted legal personhood as a DAO LLC, the DAO LLC may be a precursor to granting legal personhood to an artificial intelligence (AI).  As AI is increasingly used in DAOs, the article explores the possibility of extending the legal personhood status of a DAO to an AI. Irrespective of the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), the type of autonomous AI the article envisions is one that fully controls a DAO, called an AI DAO

The full version is available online at doi:  https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945215.003.0051.

This publication is supported by the Centre for International Law at National University of Singapore.