Aaaand the winner of the election is the guy who was rich enough to afford the most AI to vote for him with 99.9999% of the 15 trillion votes cast.
Why not?! We’ve already decided corporations are people, and people are not people; this is just par for the fucking course.
Goddamnit.
Alright. I think I’ve had enough Lemmy for today. Don‘t wanna get too depressed before lunch.
I feel like the rise of corporate personhood is the elephant in the room this article seems to avoid acknowledging.
Its only a matter of time till we get companies run entire by AI.
We kept asking in scifi if ai could ever be given the status of a legal human.
We failed to ask if capitalism has already build in a bureaucratic loophole that just gives it to them.
Its only a matter of time till we get companies run entire by AI.
I don’t think that will change much. Companies have been acting inhumane for decades without the aid of AI.
I actually replied a similar thing to someone else.
Here i am specifically speaking about the bureaucratic path a non human could use to obtain person rights.
Corpo can do no wrong, literally legal kill shiti organics and the state provides with state aid on top and makes legal frameworks for the profit seeking behaviours.
AI could never be considered a person because you have to be human for that to apply. Even if it was a human and we uploaded it, that still wouldn’t apply. You need a pulse. Or at the very least, your head.
You do realize that corporations have legal personhood?
Also certain rivers and forest can be legal person by law to protect their interests.
Hail Skynet!
this all sounds really bad and stuff, until you realize that ai CEOs wouldn’t necessarily give themselves vast amounts of money. ngl other than the stuff with copyright this doesn’t sound too bad.
AI CEOs would be trained on human CEOs so they absolutely would.
Both are true.
The first ai companies will be prompted by Humans.
A vast majority will be for profit. People want the ai to do the hard company work and collect the profit in their sleep as “owner” of the ai agent.
A good few people will do exactly the same but request non profit style and ethical focus.
Till we get to a mythical stage of agi that can actually decide globally if it thinks a company should exist or not and what purpose it should have, this is more or less same as the status quo.
weird to think that the richest people in the world wouldn’t try to get more money, that’s their entire thing
The hope is they put the thing on auto pilot and then it replaces the CEO without them knowing due to their own hubris.
Very good article.
