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Business leaders today say their companies care about more than profit and loss, that they feel responsible to society as a whole, not just to their shareholders. Corporate social responsibility is their new creed, a self-conscious corrective to earlier greed-inspired visions of the corporation. Despite this shift, the corporation itself has not changed. It remains, as it was at the time of its origins as a modern business institution in the middle of the nineteenth century, a legally designated “person” designed to valorize self-interest and invalidate moral concern. Most people would find its “personality” abhorrent, even psychopathic, in a human being, yet curiously we accept it in today’s most powerful institution.

-Joel Bakan, The Corporation

Capital has no limits – in principle, it has no limits of any kind. Not only does it have no limits in terms of growth or profits, it has no intrinsic moral limits. Whatever limits it does have must be constraints put on capital from the outside – for example, by laws. Capital itself recognizes only one thing: the need to create more of itself.

Thus, the aparent "limitless stupidity" in search of artificial intelligence is but the mere logic dictated by the intrinsic nature of capiral