Question: By 2021 will there be a court case testing the ability of a program, algorithm, or AI to be the sole partner in a US Limited Liability Corporation?
A [2014 paper](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2758222) by Shawn Bayern suggested the possibility that an algorithm, rather than a person, could apparently legally manage a US LLC.  From that paper:

> As a result, autonomous systems may end up being able, at least, to emulate many of the private-law rights of legal persons. This essay demonstrates a technique by which this is possible by means of limited liability companies (LLCs), a very flexible modern type of business organizations.

A more [recent paper appearing on SSRN](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2954173) agrees with this argument, and suggest that the law may also allow non-human (i.e. algorithmic) ownership of some other corporate structures.  It also argues that this could be majorly problematic in various ways.
Created: 2018-02-23
Resolved: 2021-01-03
Answer: no