The Worst Case Scenario For AI Is Already Here

Corporations are AI and they’ve been fucking up the world for centuries

The first malevolent AI was the VoC in the 1600s. De gepersonifieerde VOC ontvangt geschenken, Jan Caspar Philips, 1730. The personified VOC receives ‘gifts’

If you expand your definition of AI to match the legal definition, it’s already here. Corporations have had legal personhood for centuries and used that to run riot over the world. Just because these artificial beings have human components we don’t call them AI, but…