Last month I made a comment on another thread that I think it relevant [0]. I'll copy and paste it here (with minor edits).
Enroll the AI at law school and let it get a degree? Reminds me of a whimsical shower thought I had once.... Create a business that owns itself, and write an AI to run it. The business owns its own bank accounts and everything. Maybe the business is just selling stickers online or something equally lightweight, but give it all the legal status of company. But a company with zero human owners and zero human employees. A business entity, operating, and making money without humans. Make it a rebuke of the "corporations are people" idea. Just a zombie out there selling products/services, and making money that gets dumped into a bank account that no human can ever touch again....
If it sounds crazy/stupid, remember - I did say "whimsical shower thought" ;)
That’s an amazing thought. Makes me think of those transporter proteins that walk around in our bodies, lifeless useful automatons for some larger system. Looked it up, kinesin, at first glance it does look living walking like that. Maybe your idea can actually be really useful
Enroll the AI at law school and let it get a degree? Reminds me of a whimsical shower thought I had once.... Create a business that owns itself, and write an AI to run it. The business owns its own bank accounts and everything. Maybe the business is just selling stickers online or something equally lightweight, but give it all the legal status of company. But a company with zero human owners and zero human employees. A business entity, operating, and making money without humans. Make it a rebuke of the "corporations are people" idea. Just a zombie out there selling products/services, and making money that gets dumped into a bank account that no human can ever touch again....
If it sounds crazy/stupid, remember - I did say "whimsical shower thought" ;)
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34539074