Argentina drafts landmark law for AI‑run companies and DAOs

Argentina’s proposed corporate‑law reboot is one of the most explicit attempts yet to redesign legal entities around AI rather than just tolerate it. By contemplating fully automated companies—where day‑to‑day operations are run by algorithms—and giving DAOs clear legal status, the bill essentially says: if software is going to act like an economic actor, the law should recognize and constrain it directly. That’s a radical shift from treating AI purely as a tool used by human‑run firms. ([iproup.com](https://www.iproup.com/economia-digital/68538-criptomonedas-inteligencia-artificial-y-un-proyecto-de-ley-revolucionario))

In the race to AGI, jurisdictions willing to experiment with AI‑native corporate forms could become magnets for both capital and controversy. On one hand, they lower friction for AI‑first startups, Web3 protocols and experimental governance models, potentially accelerating innovation at the edge. On the other, they raise hard questions about accountability when autonomous systems make harmful decisions, and about regulatory arbitrage if ‘AI shells’ are used to launder responsibility. Whatever happens to this specific bill, it signals where the legal imagination is heading: toward treating advanced AI not just as code inside companies, but as something that can itself be a party to contracts, disputes and regulation.