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LIT-1031: An Enactive Approach to Artificial Intelligence and Legal Responsibility

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StatusUnfetched — filed 2026-10-13, not read. Registered from the 2026-10-13 exchange on meaning operators and selfhood (the workbench entry of 2026-10-13, 21:29), for CLAIM-284. No NOTE is filed, and it stays Unfetched until it is read, not on merit. Looked for a lawful full text on 2026-10-13 and found none reachable: the SSRN abstract page and both SSRN delivery URLs (Delivery.cfm?abstractid=7571720, with and without a mirror id) returned 403 "Content Blocked" to curl and to a web fetch; OpenAlex (W7221007972, doi:10.2139/ssrn.7571720) lists the SSRN posting as green open access under CC BY but gives no PDF URL and no other location; Semantic Scholar does not hold it; an arXiv author query for Benthall and Salge found nothing; PhilArchive and CORE returned bot challenges; Benthall's blog post of 2026-10-09 links only to SSRN, and his site sbenthall.net does not list it; Salge's site christophsalge.org did not connect (proxy 502) and the Hertfordshire research portal returned 403; web searches found no other copy. A lawful copy exists (SSRN, CC BY) that this client could not fetch. The Crossref record (doi:10.2139/ssrn.7571720, posted 2026) carries the abstract, which confirms the four tests the filing could not: self-production, organizational closure, precariousness and boundary formation, as tests for constitutive autonomy, taken as the physical property that coincides with intrinsic motivation, which the authors make a condition of legal responsibility; the tests are applied to children, corporations, autonomous vehicles, agents built on large language models and prospective autonomous AI systems.
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Tagsagency, philosophy-of-biology, ethics

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Benthall, S., & Salge, C. (2026). An Enactive Approach to Artificial Intelligence and Legal Responsibility. SSRN working paper 7571720. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7571720

Not read: no lawful full text was reachable from this client (see the status note). The summary follows the authors’ blog post and the abstract Crossref records for doi:10.2139/ssrn.7571720.

Why this is here

A11 ranked it P0 for “tests of self-production, organizational closure, precariousness, and boundary formation”. The Crossref abstract confirms those four tests, which the filing could not confirm. The paper itself has not been read. It bears on CLAIM-284 and QUESTION-092.

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