Legal Analysis: Agent Authority in Software Licensing and Contract Formation
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Summary
The article discusses the legal authority of agents (both human airline agents and AI/LLM agents) to bind their principals in contracts, specifically in the context of software licensing agreements. It argues that neither type of agent has general authority to form binding contracts, and that running commands like `sdkmanager --licenses` doesn't constitute contract formation but rather indicates user awareness of license terms. The piece explores the legal distinctions between different types of agents and their authority levels.
Key quotes
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To the extent you could get an LLM to state such a thing, it would be specious and still not binding.
Fundamentally, running `sdkmanager --licenses` does not consummate a contract.
Rather running this command is an indication that the user has been made aware that there is a license.
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