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I agree with the taladar@sh.itjust.works elsewhere in this thread. Corporations are the dangerous artificial intelligence, and "line go up" is the paperclip problem. We're already facing it, and it's destroying the planet and everything we depend on to stay alive.
Well except that corporations ultimately profit off of consumer behavior. Keeping consumers alive as a class is indirectly encouraged in capitalism. AI has no such necessary desire.
We can see this in how things like housing and medical insurance industries are suffering from climate change now. Once some other big business is losing profit because of another one exploiting, they will fight, and then the issue will be taken seriously.
But AI also has no innate desires at all, except what we program it to have. So profit and war are almost certainly the goals it will have.
but that won't show in results for next quarter, so they don't care
It very well might this quarter for insurance companies. It certainly did last year.
Climate change has clear economic impact now, not speculative future impact, and we can already see the finance world reacting to that in heavy handed ways.