House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman James Comer is investigating Delaware’s efforts to establish a new form of corporate entity known as an Artificial Intelligence Company, or AIC. Under the proposal, an AI agent would run the day to day operations of a corporate entity while providing the human or entity behind it with liability protections from harms to consumers, the public and business partners caused by the controlling AI, the committee said in a release on October 26.
In a letter to Delaware governor Matt Meyer, Comer requested documents and information on the state’s assessed risks and on the forces driving the proposal, and said the material could inform federal legislative efforts to limit state AI regulatory initiatives. He wrote that the committee is concerned the proposal could be used to protect powerful AI companies and their investors from responsibility for reckless harmful actions, and to shield non-transparent forces seeking regulatory capture.
The draft itself was introduced in July 2026 by Delaware’s secretary of state alongside Norm Ai. An AIC could own property, enter contracts and litigate in its own name, with a single human or corporate member retaining a liability shield provided the entity remains adequately capitalised and its activities are properly recorded, inside a thirty month regulatory sandbox. Banking would be excluded from its permitted activities.
Comer’s letter also pressed on process. It noted that the Delaware Artificial Intelligence Commission’s report of December 22, 2025 referenced a subcommittee working on a sandbox framework under House Joint Resolution 7 without mentioning assessment of safety, harms or risks, and that the lawyer described as the principal drafter of the proposed legislation, at a Delaware firm, has represented Facebook, now Meta. The proposal is not law, and its fate now runs through both a state legislature and a congressional inquiry.