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I want to see autonomous companies that would be completely governed by AI systems and would choose by themselves what to invest in, what facilities to build and where, what to manufacture, who to employ, where to expand, and so on. Corporations already have legal personhood in American law.

The videogame Shenzhen I/O already explored a similar concept superficially.

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An AI system that can do all that could clone itself, and so no need to worry about "who to employ". Infact humans and humans need would be an unnecessary burden other than to be the 'market' that the machine wants to make money from. However those humans won't have jobs, because the AI clones will be able to do their jobs. So they won't have money and there is no use pandering to them. So the machine will worry about what other AI bots want. Well they don't want champagne or ferraris. They want electricity. So expect power / manufacturing companies to do well and everything else to go to the shit.

> The videogame Shenzhen I/O already explored a similar concept superficially.

Thanks for spoiling it all to me I guess...

That little piece is more or less given away in the manual, and the (excellent) game is about solving puzzles and not the plot anyway.

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