“Imagine a system with clearly defined goals, sensors and effectors for reading and interacting with the world, the ability to recognize pleasure and pain as attractors and things to avoid, the resources to carry out its will, and the legal and social standing to see its needs are catered for, even respected. That’s a description of an AI – It’s also a description of a modern corporation. For this ‘corporate AI’, pleasure is growth and profitability, and pain is lawsuits and drops in shareholder value. Corporate speech is protected, corporate personhood recognized, and corporate desires are given freedom, legitimacy and sometimes violent force by international trade laws, state regulation – or lack thereof – and the norms and expectations of a capitalist society… Crucially, they lack empathy, or loyalty, and they are hard – although not impossible – to kill.” James Bridle, Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines