I am speaking from my opinion and the conversations I had face-to-face with EA’s in different situations but this seems broadly true:
Corporations are a necessary evil: generally much of the harm that is imposed on animals for example comes from monopolies, MNCs and such; tax evasion and exploitation of labor is conducted by the largest companies; Biorisk and AI risk comes from corporations as well as governments. There is however no other way to conduct business, and they bring about benefits such as technological development.
I wonder if that may be what AI becomes for a while, before escaping control. I personally do see corporate control (corporate governance, as well as govt. or international control over corporations) as a viable EA cause area and am willing to explore it if someone wants to do it with me.
Apologies for the late reply. To use an analogy: anyone can make a burger better than Mcdonalds’, but hardly anyone can make an organization as successful. If you could for example organize international trade, steel mining or such while avoiding corporations, I would be indeed impressed. In the reality that we live in, this is the only way to conduct business.
Fascinating! @Noah, have you seen this discussed in the EA community as well?
I am speaking from my opinion and the conversations I had face-to-face with EA’s in different situations but this seems broadly true:
Corporations are a necessary evil: generally much of the harm that is imposed on animals for example comes from monopolies, MNCs and such; tax evasion and exploitation of labor is conducted by the largest companies; Biorisk and AI risk comes from corporations as well as governments. There is however no other way to conduct business, and they bring about benefits such as technological development.
I wonder if that may be what AI becomes for a while, before escaping control. I personally do see corporate control (corporate governance, as well as govt. or international control over corporations) as a viable EA cause area and am willing to explore it if someone wants to do it with me.
Well, that’s not really true, right? Do you see some reason(s) why the corporate form of business entity is the best?
Apologies for the late reply. To use an analogy: anyone can make a burger better than Mcdonalds’, but hardly anyone can make an organization as successful. If you could for example organize international trade, steel mining or such while avoiding corporations, I would be indeed impressed. In the reality that we live in, this is the only way to conduct business.
Oh, ok. How would you modify their structure or regulation, to protect the value you see in how they conduct business? What ideas seem right to you?
Not really.
Do you know of any such discussion?