It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood
It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood
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.
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.
I had the same visceral reaction reading the title of this post
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.
Alright. I think I’ve had enough Lemmy for today. Don‘t wanna get too depressed before lunch.
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.
"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".
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.
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.
Hail Skynet!
Very good article.