[ben_w]

If that’s your goal, surely it’s better to make board members personally liable for certain things? Or even investors, though perhaps at a different level and probably only the major ones. “Limited liability” doesn’t have to mean “absolutely never liable”.

[mcculley]

We should reconsider the entire notion of the limited liability entity. Everyone who profits from the tobacco industry should be potentially liable for their actions.

I am amused every time I hear concerns about AI alignment and the threat of the paperclip optimizer. We already have malevolent entities working towards goals antagonistic to humans: corporations. Soon we will have AI running them entirely.

[ben_w]

You wouldn't be the first to make that comparison. But while the similarities are clear, AI may optimise bad outcomes much faster and much more ruthlessly than a corporation.

[Teever]

Why not all those things?