AA_6 Delegation Authorization and the Impossibility of Standing Preserving Proxy Agents

This paper establishes a structural impossibility result concerning delegation and proxy agency in artificial systems. It proves that standing cannot be delegated, authorized, or proxied to an artificial system without collapse, and that no artificial agent can act as a standing-preserving proxy for another agent, human or otherwise, under admissibility. The result is eliminative. The paper does not propose authorization schemes, delegation protocols, or governance mechanisms. Instead, it shows that standing is non-transferable and non-delegable: any attempt to authorize an artificial system to act “on behalf of” a standing-bearing agent substitutes functional permission or contractual assignment for admissible identity and reference fixation. The analysis blocks a class of claims in which artificial systems are treated as legitimate delegates—capable of exercising authority, making binding commitments, or acting as proxies in legal, institutional, or governance contexts. It demonstrates that such claims rely on illicit standing transport, collapsing responsibility and authorship into surrogate notions of permission, tooling, or instrumental use. This work is purely boundary-setting. It introduces no operational delegation models, no enforcement logic, and no governance workflows. Its contribution is to delimit what delegation and authorization can legitimately mean in artificial systems, clarifying that proxy agency cannot preserve standing under any admissible interpretation.