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Re:Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic wi... by pjc50 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:23AM (#49624142)
If you substitute "shareholder value", this is basically how corporations already make decisions with effects on human life.
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Re:Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic wi... by qznc on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:41AM (#49624291)
Sure, I once write that companies are artificial intelligence and it still feels true: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/companies_are_ai.html
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Re:Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic wi... by SideburnsOfDoom on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @08:26AM (#49625418)
Cstross certainly did say that in 2017.

> I'm talking about the very old, very slow AIs we call corporations, of course.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-yo...

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