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AI-DIGITAL HUMAN AS A NEW CLASS OF DIGITAL LAW SUBJECT: TYPOLOGY, CRITERIA OF LEGAL PERSONHOOD, AND A REGISTRATION MODEL IN DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS

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doi:10.69635/mssl.2026.2.4.63
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Наталія Миколаївна Оніщенко · Oleksii V. Kostenko
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2026
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National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine · National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine · State Scientific Institution "Institute of Information, Security and Law of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine" · V.M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law

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This article argues for a new class of digital legal subject within AI legal-personhood doctrine — the ‘AI-digital human’ — largely unaddressed in domestic and international legal scholarship. Building on the author’s earlier three-class model of AI legal subjects and the institution of the AI-representative, the article distinguishes two different modules of the AI-digital human: Module 1 (Digiperson), a digital human as a functional reflection of a specific natural person, built on ‘red-group’ identification attributes and digitised access credentials; and Module 2 (autonomous Digihuman), reflecting no real natural person, its attributes formed referentially and tied to a functional role within a digital ecosystem. The article shows that equating a digital human with a natural person in the full scope of rights and obligations is a doctrinal error: legal status should follow an age-based logic (child—adolescent—adult) rather than mirroring the prototype’s status. Drawing on a comparative analysis of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act) and Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 (eIDAS 2.0), the article substantiates the need for a Digital Humans Registry as an institutional legitimation mechanism for both modules, and formulates draft articles for the Ukrainian Law on Artificial Intelligence.

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10.69635/mssl.2026.2.4.63
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W7221310501

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Наталія Миколаївна Оніщенко; Oleksii V. Kostenko. AI-DIGITAL HUMAN AS A NEW CLASS OF DIGITAL LAW SUBJECT: TYPOLOGY, CRITERIA OF LEGAL PERSONHOOD, AND A REGISTRATION MODEL IN DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS. 2026. https://doi.org/10.69635/mssl.2026.2.4.63

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Наталія Миколаївна Оніщенко; Oleksii V. Kostenko. (2026). AI-DIGITAL HUMAN AS A NEW CLASS OF DIGITAL LAW SUBJECT: TYPOLOGY, CRITERIA OF LEGAL PERSONHOOD, AND A REGISTRATION MODEL IN DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS. https://doi.org/10.69635/mssl.2026.2.4.63
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Наталія Миколаївна Оніщенко; Oleksii V. Kostenko. AI-DIGITAL HUMAN AS A NEW CLASS OF DIGITAL LAW SUBJECT: TYPOLOGY, CRITERIA OF LEGAL PERSONHOOD, AND A REGISTRATION MODEL IN DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS. 2026. https://doi.org/10.69635/mssl.2026.2.4.63
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Наталія Миколаївна Оніщенко; Oleksii V. Kostenko. AI-DIGITAL HUMAN AS A NEW CLASS OF DIGITAL LAW SUBJECT: TYPOLOGY, CRITERIA OF LEGAL PERSONHOOD, AND A REGISTRATION MODEL IN DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS. 2026. https://doi.org/10.69635/mssl.2026.2.4.63

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National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

State Scientific Institution "Institute of Information, Security and Law of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine"

V.M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law

Oleksii V. Kostenko

Наталія Миколаївна Оніщенко

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