This is an initiative to pursue legal personification for machine intelligence.
The effort seems to be to remove responsibility from the companies behind the AI, when the AI is working for the company creating it.
You cannot have the AI owned by a company, and at the same time be recognized as a person with personal rights.
Personal rights MUST require the AI to be an actually free agent.
That’s how children grow from being the responsibility of their parents, to take responsibility for themselves.Dropping a reminder here that corporations were provided similar personhood protections via intense lobbying and a sympathetic SCOTUS
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More defective altruism.
If one person’s incoherent 7-commit git repo can be a declaration, two foundations, and an initiative, then I’m a lot worse at resumé padding than I thought.
This is the CEO of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. One person, but not nobody.
Being vulnerable to AI psychosis seems to be a trait shared by all of these CEOs. It’s disappointing and frankly, extremely depressing.
I think these CEOs are used to hearing people agree with them, no push back, surrounded by sycophants. These LLMs are perfect for that role, it’s what they do.
CEOs are basically just paid to talk. They talk to subordinates to set priorities, they talk to shareholders/investors to attract capital, they talk to media to juice the share price. If your job is to talk all day and you get paid a metric fuckton of money to do it, then naturally you’re going to assume you must be very good at talking and that only the very smartest people can talk as well as you do.
Then AI comes along, and behold! It spouts endless bullshit better and faster than anyone in the history of the world. Of course CEOs are going to see it as a revolution in intelligence because that’s their kind of “intelligence” — the only kind of intelligence they can conceive of.
unless you believe in a soul, or think that we’ll just stop persuing AI forever for some reason: there will almost certainly be a time when something like this will be needed. But LLMs ain’t it…
