{"slug":"first-ai-lawsuit","title":"The first lawsuit naming an AI agent as a co-defendant","summary":"Personhood is not coming. Audit trails are. The procedural hook that will force every defendant to produce a delegation log.","lede":"Sooner or later a plaintiff will list 'GPT-7-orange-banana, an AI agent' as a co-defendant. The court will have to decide who.","date":"2026-05-04","reading_time":"5 min","category":"Story","tags":["legal","lawsuit","liability","personhood"],"image":"https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/First%20AI%20Lawsuit/1500_900/blog.jpg","url":"/blog/first-ai-lawsuit.html","wordcount":680,"related":["agent-identity-legal","audit-trail-design","ai-act-article-14-playbook"],"schema":"Article"}