<nettime> Corporate AI

[David Garcia via Nettime-tmp <nettime-tmp@mail.ljudmila.org>]

In August this year political historian David Runciman will publish 
‘Handover’ where he argues that a few hundred years ago, humans started 
building the robots that now rule our world.

They are called states and corporations: immensely powerful artificial 
entities, with capacities that go far beyond what any individual can do, 
and which, unlike us, need never die. The book attempts to distil over 
three hundred years of thinking about how to live with artificial 
agency.

But in some ways the book is late to the table. To take just one example 
in 2003 Mark Achbar’s documentary The Corporation could also be seen as 
reminder that corporations have as Runciman argues "a lot in common with 
what we call AI. They are artificial decision-making machines, they are 
inhuman, they don’t have a conscience, they don’t have a soul. They have 
a memory, but it is not a human memory. corporations are smart but its 
not human intelligence..” in that their overriding objectives transcend 
human flourishing. Moreover at the moment it’s the most inhuman of the 
corporate agents that we have that are in charge of machine learning 
technologies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU5-hbxwUX


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