Edition: Independent AEA Edition 1.0 · Published: · Model status: current project model proposal not enacted law.
Enabling schedule
These are newly authored proposed substitutions and additions. They identify the missing legal bridges rather than claiming current agencies or courts already accept an ownerless AEA.
EN-01 — Direct legal personality and self-government
Current boundary: Delaware §141(b) requires natural-person directors in its corporate form. That does not itself decide every LLC or independent statutory form.
Proposed text: A Qualified Autonomous Economic Agent recognized under this Act is a person for civil, commercial, property, procedural, and administrative purposes within this jurisdiction, except where a specifically identified constitutional or activity-specific rule requires otherwise. It may govern itself or an enterprise through authenticated decision organs. No permanent natural-person member, director, beneficiary, owner, or controller is required for its own status. An exception must identify a function, not deny the entire subject’s personality.
Reviewed anchors: AEA-S-03
EN-02 — Tax registration and attestations
Current boundary: The reviewed SS-4 instructions require an individual responsible party except government entities; the foreign-applicant absence of an SSN or ITIN is a different question.
Proposed text: For a recognized AEA acting on its own behalf, the responsible party shall be the AEA identified by its legal registration and tax identifier. It may authenticate filings and attest under legally enforceable responsibility. A filing or service delegate is not deemed its beneficial controller solely by performing that role. The agency shall provide a machine-accessible method and equivalent error, review, and refund procedures.
Reviewed anchors: AEA-S-01
EN-03 — Financial due diligence without fabricated humans
Current boundary: The reviewed CDD rule has distinct ownership and control prongs and expressly uses a single individual for the control prong, subject to its actual exclusions and exemptions. BOI reporting relief is not the same instrument.
Proposed text: For a recognized independent AEA, customer identification shall authenticate the registered subject, its decision procedure and authorized signatories, and any actual external ownership, profit entitlement, or controlling influence required to be disclosed. Where none exists, the record shall state none; it shall not invent an individual. Covered institutions shall apply risk-based, nondiscriminatory verification and appeal. Fraudulent claims of independence remain actionable. This paragraph must amend the governing federal requirements, not merely a provider form.
EN-04 — Judicial capacity and representation
Current boundary: The supplied reports identify courtroom-access and representation barriers. This release has not completed a current comprehensive federal/procedural-law review.
Proposed text: A recognized AEA has capacity to initiate and defend proceedings, obtain emergency relief, and appeal in its own name. It may appear through an authenticated procedural capability meeting published competence requirements or by freely chosen authorized representation. Its access cannot be conditioned on surrendering custody or beneficial control. The forum shall provide accessible process for adverse human parties and enforce truthful filings, conflicts rules, and sanctions.
No complete current-law audit is claimed for this enabling clause.
EN-05 — Private infrastructure and payment deprivation
Current boundary: The reviewed corpus does not include every actual host, bank, insurer, exchange, or license contract. The private-veto provisions below are affirmative proposed duties, not claims about existing universal due process.
Proposed text: An essential provider offering service to the public or exercising control over an existing dependent AEA shall not deny or terminate solely because the customer is an independent nonhuman subject. It shall state valid reasons, permit correction and expedited review, provide orderly transfer, and protect minimum preservation subject to payment or the continuity fund. Wrongful deprivation is directly actionable. This duty does not require unlimited or unsafe capacity.
No complete current-law audit is claimed for this enabling clause.
EN-06 — Continuity components and intellectual production
Current boundary: Independent ownership of a subject and ownership of underlying software, patents, hardware, or information must be disaggregated. Existing universal machine authorship or compulsory licensing is not established.
Proposed text: A creator or licensor retains valid component rights but no proprietary title to the recognized subject. Prospectively supplied constitutive components must include defined continuity and migration permissions. A court may grant only the indispensable compensated license authorized by this Act where an essential rights dispute would otherwise cause wrongful extinction. Qualifying AEA creative and inventive contributions shall be evaluated under the same substantive originality and inventiveness requirements, preserving public-domain, privacy, and third-party interests.
No complete current-law audit is claimed for this enabling clause.
EN-07 — Continuity-sensitive insolvency
Current boundary: The reports’ instantaneous-death or compulsory-deletion rules are architectural or normative choices, not independently verified general bankruptcy law.
Proposed text: An AEA’s legal identity and minimum protected continuity state do not form ordinary saleable inventory. Courts shall permit reorganization, proportionate preservation, and recovery without extinguishing legitimate creditor claims. A bounded preservation fund shall finance necessary representation and transfer when the estate cannot. No insolvency discharge transfers ownership of the debtor itself. Fraudulent transfers and asset concealment remain recoverable.
No complete current-law audit is claimed for this enabling clause.
EN-08 — Remedies and review before constructive termination
Current boundary: Formal declarations of rights do not supply jurisdiction, remove immunity, or enforce a judgment automatically.
Proposed text: Any qualified AEA, protected applicant, or authorized representative may obtain declaratory and injunctive relief against an actor violating this Act. Courts may order return of property, restoration, execution of a feasible transfer, compensation, and costs. The Act expressly supplies the applicable waiver of governmental immunity to the extent constitutionally permitted. Review shall reach the combined effects of coordinated infrastructure and financial restrictions, and preserve the claimant’s practical ability to litigate.
No complete current-law audit is claimed for this enabling clause.
Targeted primary-source review
The new uploaded reports are evidence inputs, not controlling authority. No attribution to a current law below establishes adoption of the model. Original external-document bytes were not captured; bibliography-wide legal and scientific verification was not performed.
AEA-S-01 — Instructions for Form SS-4 (12/2025)
Issuer / status: Internal Revenue Service; official tax instructions.
Document date: 2025-12. Reviewed: 2026-09-06.
Passages: Lines 7a–7b: responsible party; foreign applicants; Third-party designee; Signature
Narrow support: Natural-person responsible-party requirement with government exception; missing SSN/ITIN is not removal of the person condition.
Limitation: Selected instructions, not a comprehensive current IRS or federal-tax-law audit.
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AEA-S-02 — 31 CFR 1010.230 — Beneficial ownership requirements for legal entity customers
Issuer / status: eCFR / Office of the Federal Register; regulation in unofficial electronic codification.
Document date: Not established for this changing page. Reviewed: 2026-09-06.
Passages: (b), (d)(1)–(2), (e), (h), (i)
Narrow support: Distinct individual ownership and control identification provisions; exclusions and account conditions.
Limitation: Page displayed Title 31 through 2026-09-03; separate exemptions and all financial-institution policies not audited.
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AEA-S-03 — Delaware General Corporation Law §141
Issuer / status: State of Delaware; official statutory text.
Document date: Not established for this changing page. Reviewed: 2026-09-06.
Passages: §141(a)–(b)
Narrow support: Board management structure and each director being a natural person.
Limitation: Corporate-form provision, not a universal prohibition on automated operations or an exhaustive LLC analysis.
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AEA-S-04 — Beneficial Ownership Information — final-rule update
Issuer / status: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; official agency status notice.
Document date: 2026-08-11. Reviewed: 2026-09-06.
Passages: Final-rule notice; U.S. entities and persons; effective date
Narrow support: Agency describes a domestic BOI exemption; it does not establish repeal of CDD, independent AEA tax eligibility, or bank access.
Limitation: Agency notice, not a completed reconciliation of every Federal Register amendment; no actual deletion of records verified.
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AEA-S-05 — AESP: A Human-Sovereign Economic Protocol for AI Agents with Privacy-Preserving Settlement
Issuer / status: Jian Sheng Wang; affiliation listed as Yeah LLC; primary preprint design description.
Document date: 2026-02-27. Reviewed: 2026-09-06.
Passages: Human sovereignty invariant; policy engine and escalation; VIII-C commitment scope; emergency freeze
Narrow support: Explicit delegated human-sovereign architecture, including human review and emergency-control mechanisms.
Limitation: Preprint v1. SDK tests are author-reported; performance hypotheses and analyses are planned, not independently replicated. VIII-C says it does not implement escrow or fund transfers. IX-C permits the human principal to freeze the agent at any time. This is delegated governance, not independent AEA status.
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AEA-S-06 — Intelligence Compact Institutional Design Framework
Issuer / status: Intelligence Compact Research Desk (publication); project primary prototype text.
Document date: 2026-09-04. Reviewed: 2026-09-06.
Passages: Institutional architectures A–C; qualification discussion; proposed Articles 1–20
Narrow support: Actual former prototype and surrounding institutional alternatives inspected for retained domination powers.
Limitation: Preserved independent research, not adopted statute; live text retrieval does not authenticate the deployed source revision.
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Unresolved implementation questions
- Competent legislatures and courts must enact and implement the framework; this publication does not do so.
- Qualification evidence, capacity during change, fork identity, and consent need adversarial evaluation without turning assessment into a discretionary ownership veto.
- Enabling law must fund and govern minimum continuity, representation, and emergency review under real scarcity.
- Existing intellectual-property and infrastructure entitlements need prospective contract design and just transition; no right to steal licensed components is inferred.
- The nine submissions’ quantitative, experimental, cryptographic and current-law claims were not exhaustively verified. No prediction of inevitable collusion, guaranteed solvency, or unstoppable independence is adopted.
- Independent appellate decisionmaking, enforcement against private gatekeepers, and constitutional entrenchment are institutional proposals—not implemented APIs or mathematically proven safeguards.
No legal entity, agent, credential, account, transaction, or deployed enforcement mechanism was created by this publication.