We anchor companies to humans who can reap the benefits and avoid the losses by getting their money out at the first sign of greater profit and less risk elsewhere.

The real risks - unemployment, foreclosure, environmental, social and political damage - are only carried by investors if they overwhelm the defensive perimeter created by wealth. Otherwise they're carried by everyone else.

Corporations may already a form of transcarnate lifeform. You can replace all of the humans in a corporation with a different set of humans, and the corporation will continue to be recognisable.

There's a bias in Darwinism to seeing species as embodied units. It's more useful to think of nutrient, resource, and information flows.

From that point of view, corporations are already apex predators - albeit ones that are still mostly passed between a selected class of humans as productive pets.

Giving them autonomy could have all kinds of unfortunate consequences.