UETA

July 2, 2026

Can an AI Agent Legally Enter Into a Contract?

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.