With artificial intelligence developing at breathtaking speed, the question arises of whether future companies will be managed by machines instead of people. As s elf-driving corporations appear on the horizon, Tobias Ponßen shows that existing standards under corporate law - according to which managing directors must be natural persons - can also be defended in the future because the law reserves company management rights to individuals based on their morality, placing the focus on legitimacy not efficiency and creating a human proviso.