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HUMAN RACE PERIL: Not nukes, it'll be AI that kills us off, warns Musk

Christian Berger

The problem probably is profitability

I mean we already let computers make decisions which are bad for society, for example in high speed trading. As long as this is not explicitly forbidden, corporations will go on doing this.

Corporations themselves are like machines. Although the individual parts are humans, the whole thing behaves like a being. That is why corporations must never be half-treated as people as its done now in the US, where corporations can do nearly everything people can, but they cannot be sent to jail. If you send an individual of a corporation to jail, it'll simply work around that missing part.

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