We have that now. It's called a corporation. See yesterday's article about Exxon.
I think there’s a good argument to say no, we don’t have that now, and these are some ways it could be very different.
Video: Why not just think of AGI as a corporation?
1: https://www.etsy.com/news/business-as-a-force-for-good-defin...
ai generates content <--money--> ai pushes ads to promote its content.
It's somewhat already happening: recommendation algorithms choose what content we consume, analytics make decisions from this data and make more content that recommendation algorithms like. AI HFT bots can directly influence economy and so on
Or rather, they're giving the rest of us a glimpse of what life has been like for those at the "bottom of the pile" for a long time: a world organised around goals essentially completely unrelated and indifferent to those people's existence.
That’s banal, self-interested human evil. Corporations and governments alike have perpetuated mass crimes and cover-ups.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...
An AI could be completely untethered from that and set new thresholds for evil corporate behaviour.
An AI could be completely untethered from that and set new thresholds for ethical corporate behaviour that operates on fundamentally ethical foundations of caring for the environment and humanity