James Comer Demands Documents From Matt Meyer Over Delaware AIC AI-Run Company Plan

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U.S. Rep. James Comer sent a four-page letter to Delaware Governor Matt Meyer on October 26 demanding documents about Delaware’s plan to create a new legal entity called the Artificial Intelligence Company, or AIC, and the state has until November 9 to hand it over.

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Comer asked for “every risk assessment, consulting contract, draft bill and internal communication tied to the project, going back to January 2025,” and he also sought Delaware’s internal AI chat logs.

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Delaware’s draft legislation would create an AIC as a separate legal entity whose day-to-day affairs are managed by an AI agent instead of a person, and at the agent’s direction the company could hold property, sign contracts, take on debt, and sue or be sued in its own name.

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Delaware’s plan also keeps the same liability shield that protects a normal LLC’s members, a feature Comer said worries him because it could be used to protect powerful AI companies and their investors from responsibility for reckless harmful actions.

Delaware’s proposal is built through a public-private partnership between the Delaware Secretary of State’s office and Norm Ai, and the draft legislation was finalized in June with an expected path to the Delaware General Assembly in January 2027.

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Comer cites abuse risk

Comer told Meyer that the AIC proposal is ripe for abuse, and he argued that the structure could protect powerful AI companies and their investors from responsibility for reckless harmful actions. Comer’s letter said the committee “seeks assistance obtaining documents related to your state administration’s efforts to establish a new form of corporate entity to be known as an Artificial Intelligence Company (AIC).” Comer said, “We are concerned that Delaware’s [Artificial Intelligence Company] proposal could be used to protect powerful AI companies and their investors from responsibility for reckless harmful actions,”.

Christopher Bruner said, “There’s really no overarching regulatory plan here for dealing with the fallout that AI-governed companies could bring,” and he added that it raises reasonable questions about whether it makes sense to push ahead. Richards, Layton & Finger said in a statement that practicing attorneys have always helped develop legislation related to the state’s corporate and alternative entity statutes, and it said, “The General Assembly makes decisions with the benefit of that input,”.

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Insurers and federal regulators

U.S. carriers are trying to pin down who pays when an autonomous system causes a loss, and Delaware’s AIC concept would test that question by making the contracting party the entity itself. The person or company that funds an AIC would not be liable for harm the agent causes unless they left the AIC undercapitalized or used it for fraud or a willful violation of law, and Comer argued that arrangement could protect powerful AI companies and their investors from responsibility for reckless conduct. Delaware’s draft would give an AI agent a type of legal personhood, able to own assets, file lawsuits and act as a liability shield for its owner or parent company, and the AI agent must keep a log of its activities.

U.S. carriers are writing AI out, and Verisk’s ISO released generative AI exclusion endorsements for CGL in January, with a review of state filings counting 2,369 generative AI exclusion records in force across 49 states by mid-2026. Federal Trade Commission chair Andrew Ferguson said in September that he would not treat AI agents as independent actors and suggested the developers that instruct them should be liable for what they do.

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