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'''Artificial Intelligence already rules the world. It has for hundreds of years, it just has another name, the [[corporation]].''' | '''Artificial Intelligence already rules the world. It has for hundreds of years, it just has another name, the [[corporation]].''' | ||
When Mitt Romney said | When Mitt Romney said “''corporations are people, my friend''” people laughed at him. But he was right. Corporations are legal persons. This is not an analogy or a metaphor but a legal fact<ref>'''Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific''', U.S. Supreme Court (1886): 118 U.S. 394. Decided: May 9, 1886. Accessed 6<sup>th</sup> Jan 2022 via <nowiki>https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/118/394/</nowiki></ref>. Corporate personhood has been accepted since ancient India, through Rome, to the present day. Corporations can buy property, enter contracts, and are treated generally the same as ‘natural’ persons in the eyes of the law. They even have the right to free speech, including influencing elections. Corporations are artificial persons. Therefore (since we assume people are intelligent), they are artificially intelligent. Corporations are AI. | ||
Human beings are computers. | |||
Human beings are computers | |||
Wait, you’ll say, but AI is computers. OK. Then what’s a computer? Until the late 1960s, a computer was a human being. | Wait, you’ll say, but AI is computers. OK. Then what’s a computer? Until the late 1960s, a computer was a human being. | ||
The word computer has been a job description since the 1600s. Computers were a bunch of boys in a room doing astronomical computations. Or | The word computer has been a job description since the 1600s. Computers were a bunch of boys in a room doing astronomical computations. Or women, like Katherine Johnson at proto-NASA in 1952. | ||
Katherine Johnson, a computer | Katherine Johnson, a computer: | ||
“I heard that Langley was looking for | “I heard that Langley was looking for women computers,” she said.“We wrote our own textbook, because there was no other text about space,” she says. “We just started from what we knew. We had to go back to geometry and figure all of this stuff out. Inasmuch as I was in at the beginning, I was one of those lucky people.”That luck came in large part because she was no stranger to geometry. It was only natural that she calculate the trajectory of Alan Shepard’s 1961 trip into space, America’s first. (When Computers Wore Skirts) | ||
The computers that first sent men to space were not machines. They were | The computers that first sent men to space were not machines. They were women. | ||
Computation has always been a collective task, and it has always involved human beings. The modern myth of a lone inventor creating AI is as unrealistic | Computation has always been a collective task, and it has always involved human beings. The modern myth of a lone inventor creating AI is as unrealistic. AI has always been a network, and it uses every computer available — including human brains. | ||
If you think, wait, I’m using a computer now and there’s no human being involved, just look in the black mirror. You’re the computer. Who said you’re using the network? Maybe it’s using you. | If you think, wait, I’m using a computer now and there’s no human being involved, just look in the black mirror. You’re the computer. Who said you’re using the network? Maybe it’s using you. | ||
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=== Autonomous Organisations === | === Autonomous Organisations === | ||
[[File:Autonomous organisation.png|alt=Autonomous organisation|thumb|'''Figure 1'''. The ultimate form of a corporation is the Autonomous organisation.]] | [[File:Autonomous organisation.png|alt=Autonomous organisation|thumb|'''Figure 1'''. The ultimate form of a corporation is the Autonomous organisation.]] | ||
As businesses are becoming increasingly mechanised this has brought about the possibility of | As AI developers businesses are becoming increasingly mechanised, this has brought about the possibility of making a fully [[Autonomous Organisations]]. Take for example a traditional coffee shop, by replacing the baristas with automated vending machines (See '''Figure 1.''') the [[corporation]] that owns the coffee shop can eliminate the most costly and inefficient part of any business, it workers. These hybrid bot / robot system already exist and are called [[Decentralized Semi Autonomous Organization]]<nowiki/>s (or DAOs for short). | ||
=== The Paperclip Maximizer === | === The Paperclip Maximizer === | ||