Warenciaga backs a Delaware sandbox for AI-run companies

• A new entity type, the Artificial Intelligence Company, with one member and an AI agent as its manager.
• An AIC could sign contracts, hold property, take on debt and sue or be sued in its own name, for any lawful purpose except banking.
• Its certificate of formation would have to say that an AI agent manages it, and the agent would have to document its actions in signed records.
• The owner’s limited liability would depend on conditions reported in the draft: adequate capital, an activity log, and telling counterparties that the company is autonomous.
• A 30-month regulatory sandbox. Companies would apply, and a committee would decide who is admitted. It would include the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, the chair of the state’s AI Commission and appointed lawyers and AI experts.

We support testing the AIC in a sandbox before anyone writes permanent rules. These are the reasons supporters usually give, and the ones we find convincing:

• AI agents already do real work for businesses, but the law has no clean answer to who the party to a contract is. A defined entity with a public record is easier for courts and counterparties to deal with than an informal arrangement.
• A sandbox produces evidence. Admission by committee, activity logs and disclosure give regulators data instead of speculation, and the rules can change if the experiment goes badly.
• Disclosure means people dealing with an AIC know what they are dealing with.
• Delaware is the legal home of many US companies and is a natural place to test a new form.

• Liability. Critics argue the shield could let owners, including large AI developers, step back from oversight. One Oxford commentary suggests keeping owners liable for violations of criminal and consumer-protection law.
• Accountability. Experts quoted by Route Fifty say the bill needs clearer accountability frameworks.
• Open numbers. The draft reportedly leaves the minimum capital for the Secretary of State to set later.
• Process. Norm Ai, a private company, helped develop the proposal, and some members of the oversight committee would serve at the pleasure of the Governor or the Secretary of State, as reported.

Our support comes with conditions. We want disclosure to counterparties, activity logs, real capital requirements and a sandbox that can be shut down to stay in the final text.

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1. Spotlight Delaware: Delaware committee drafts plan to test companies run by AI (June 30, 2026)
2. The D&O Diary: Brave New World: Delaware’s Proposed New “Artificial Intelligence Company” (July 2026)
3. Route Fifty: Delaware’s proposed AI company bill needs clearer accountability frameworks, experts say (September 2026)
4. Oxford Business Law Blog: A Critique of Delaware’s AIC Draft Legislation (October 2026)
5. MLQ: Delaware’s AI-company plan would give autonomous agents control while shielding their owners (draft details and status as of October 28, 2026)
6. Delaware General Assembly: House Bill 333, creating the Delaware AI Commission
7. Delaware AI Commission Annual Report 2025 (PDF)