> * You can't actually delegate agency to a computer. The Restatement of the Law of Agency says an agent must be a person.
Does Amazon manually review every purchase made on their site? This seems not to be true at least for some contracts.
The rest seem to fall along a similar vein. If you believe software cannot act as an agent for a corporation in creating sales contracts, then similarly it should follow that what you're suggesting is true -- LLMs cannot act as an agent.
But we know that is not the case in some circumstances.
Amazon accepts your offer of a purchase when it ships your order. It's not a contract when you click the purchase button—hence why Amazon can cancel your order when there's a pricing mistake or the item is out-of-stock.
Does Amazon manually review every purchase made on their site? This seems not to be true at least for some contracts.
The rest seem to fall along a similar vein. If you believe software cannot act as an agent for a corporation in creating sales contracts, then similarly it should follow that what you're suggesting is true -- LLMs cannot act as an agent.
But we know that is not the case in some circumstances.