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by wizzwizz4 794 days ago
No, they're not. Corporations have known, concrete impacts on the world, whereas the dangers of AI are, so far, corporations. ASIs are (as yet) fictional.

Another difference: most corporations will avoid doing illegal stuff if the penalties are large enough: the corporation alignment problem is political. Pretty much no extant AI systems can be instructed in this way: we don't know how to align AIs even in theory.

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For organisms the ultimate punishment is death. How do you delete an AI from the internet?
sudo rm * -rf
That won't provide any motivation: no AI system yet created fears death (except perhaps some of the really simple, evolved ones – but I'd question whether they're sophisticated enough to fear).
> Corporations have known, concrete impacts on the world

I hate to do this, but can you enumerate them?