Once again Ted Chiang has it exactly right. The immediate danger from #AI is not that it will become sentient and do whatever it wants. The danger is that it will do what it’s being designed to do: help rich corporations destroy the working class in pursuit of ever-greater profits and thus concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

@JamesGleick I hope politicians are going to consider some serious legislation on AI. For safety it should be subject to same laws as humans.

@Threearrows78 @JamesGleick It is not a person. Treating the current machine as a person will be the same mistake or a bigger mistake than treating the corporation as a person.

The problem with both is liability. Put more liability and actual consequences on a natural person behind the legal person and you'll see interesting shifts in behavior.