Why not?! We’ve already decided corporations are people, and people are not people; this is just par for the fucking course.
Goddamnit.
I feel like the rise of corporate personhood is the elephant in the room this article seems to avoid acknowledging.
The same ones listed in the article. Property ownership, speech, privacy, etc.
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.
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.
I think “personhood” refers to the ability to sign contracts though. It has nothing to do with voting.
Oh fuck me! The standard of living has already taken such a giant nose dive during my lifetime. First it was corporations and now this shit? You have got to be fucking kidding me.
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You do realize that corporations have legal personhood?
Also certain rivers and forest can be legal person by law to protect their interests.
Wow I wonder which has meaningful power and influence? The rivers, right? Those dang rivers always controlling the state… Trump will no doubt put a stop to that!
“personhood” by the law only refers to the ability to sign contracts.
companies and states already have that.
what you’re talking about is a “natural person”.
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It’s already happened. The corporations who own the “AI” are already “people”. They don’t put the “corporation” on the stand but a bunch of lawyers. It’s not a big step at all from “AI” being “human”. Neither corporations nor “AI” are actually people. Just put some lawyers up there.
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.
weird to think that the richest people in the world wouldn’t try to get more money, that’s their entire thing
AI CEOs would be trained on human CEOs so they absolutely would.
I mean an AI CEO doesn’t wanna buy a $500 million boat to show off, it would just keep the money in the company and reinvest it somewhere.
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.
The problem is with humanity giving up control to machines.
I mean, humanity (especially in the West) has already given up large amounts of power to corporate CEOs, which can be modelled as soulless machines well enough, but installing AI would take it even one step further.
