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The law answered whether a machine can make a contract back in 1999. Federal and state electronic-transaction statutes call the software an 'electronic agent' and say a contract it forms is not void just because no human reviewed it. The contract is attributed to the person who deployed the agent — who is bound by what it does, mistakes included. The genuinely open questions are about authority and error, not validity.
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