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by bobbruno 1023 days ago
In most cases, the ones who do sue are neither - they’re companies themselves, with shareholders of their own, or funds with specific regulations (which amount to much the same, if not more specifically profit-oriented).

These are not people, they don’t think morally the way people do. These are not demons, they are not evil themselves - these are more like machines, algorithms tuned to maximize profit. This structure is our paper-clip optimiser, already in place much before the AI revolution. If there is a devil, they are the ones behind setting up this entire system, not a player in it.