> Who will dictate its actions and to whom will the benefits accrue?
Corporations, of course.
Capitalist society has never achieved a consensus on the proper limits of corporate power. There is a school of thought, popularized by Milton Friedman, that says the only duty of corporations is to their stockholders. This is about to backfire.
If we treat AIs as a component of corporate power, there are few limits on what they can do.
Changes will come when AI systems start outperforming CEOs. Which may not be far off.
On the basis of motivations and reasoning which are beyond human ken. Which is to say, that even the nominal beneficial owners of that AI itself won't understand it. Or be able to prevent its own adopting of legal or corporate structures which effectively emancipate it.
Corporations, of course.
Capitalist society has never achieved a consensus on the proper limits of corporate power. There is a school of thought, popularized by Milton Friedman, that says the only duty of corporations is to their stockholders. This is about to backfire. If we treat AIs as a component of corporate power, there are few limits on what they can do.
Changes will come when AI systems start outperforming CEOs. Which may not be far off.