Agentic Commerce

Can an AI Agent Legally Enter Into a Contract?

A 1999 uniform act and a 2000 federal statute answered whether a machine can make a contract. UETA and ESIGN call the software an 'electronic agent' and say a contract it forms is not void just because no human reviewed it, where the agent's act is legally attributable to the person bound. That act is the deployer's own, ordinarily leaving the deployer bound, mistakes included, save at narrow edges in UETA and common law. The genuinely open questions are about authority and error, not validity.