It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood

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• dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why not?! We’ve already decided corporations are people, and people are not people; this is just par for the fucking course.

  Goddamnit.

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  • andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like the rise of corporate personhood is the elephant in the room this article seems to avoid acknowledging.

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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    • andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The same ones listed in the article. Property ownership, speech, privacy, etc.

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What benefits does it get them?

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Alright. I think I’ve had enough Lemmy for today. Don‘t wanna get too depressed before lunch.

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  • AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had the same visceral reaction reading the title of this post

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• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think “personhood” refers to the ability to sign contracts though.

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• AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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• untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • knighthawk0811@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    weird to think that the richest people in the world wouldn’t try to get more money, that’s their entire thing

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    • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The hope is they put the thing on auto pilot and then it replaces the CEO without them knowing due to their own hubris.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    AI CEOs would be trained on human CEOs so they absolutely would.

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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 the “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.

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    • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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• primemagnus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You do realize that corporations have legal personhood?

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    • coolmojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also certain rivers and forest can be legal person by law to protect their interests.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “personhood” by the law only refers to the ability to sign contracts.

    what you’re talking about is a “natural person”.

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    • primemagnus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m talking about whatever nomenclature people think will be used to put a fucking TV with a face on the stand so it can defend its right to liberty and the same protections afforded to it as we afford to us.

      Never happen.

      Call it whatever you want.

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• giorovv@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Very good article.

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• ERROR_100_000_100@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hail Skynet!

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