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From this post: https://hexbear.net/post/2063160. The whole comments thread is gold, this guy is on a reply streak.

Someone get him on the lathe, let's see more CEOs getting held personally liable.

Also, bonus points that this guy can take time away from his busy day of running a company to post on IGN comment threads, really speaks to the important work he's doing.

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[-] ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 8 months ago

His argument is that we need CEOs so that someone can be held responsible when a company commits crimes...

In what world do C-Suites ever face consequences??

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

Also, if everything can be fully automated, why are we programming AIs to commit crime on behalf of a company?

Is this a Megaman X reference?

[-] ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Hey waitaminute... actually this is a great idea then!

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

Can't wait to have all out climate work ruined in a week because Pollution Pig was leading a company but went maverick big-cool

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 42 points 8 months ago

Man I wish the world worked the way this guy thinks it does. If we’re gonna have this capitalist structure, that should be the point of a CEO. When the BP oil spill happened the head of BP should’ve been executed for his crimes.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

with all shareholders, like a pharaoh

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago

The board of directors should be entombed along with the CEO when the CEO dies or steps down.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Hear me out here, everyone. Let's say we get to a point where AI replaces most of industry, and if we need someone to be held accountable. Why not have people democratically decide on what the AI can and cannot do, and when the AI does something we do not like, we democratically tell the AI not to do that.

I know I know....really crazy idea.

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago

What? Just implement a corporate death penalty and have the state seize the corporation's asset if the corporate person does something illegal. Corporations are people, don't they know this?

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago

"I will believe corporations are people when Texas executes one."

[-] cqthca@reddthat.com 3 points 7 months ago
[-] jonne@infosec.pub 16 points 8 months ago

Besides, when's the last time a CEO was actually held personally liable for anything in the US? It's purely an academic distinction, and I would argue it's probably easier to keep an AI within the confines of the law if governments mandated this to be the case. You program it in, and if you didn't the owner is liable.

[-] cqthca@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago

One time a dead Pope's corpse was put on trial. Cadaver Synod - wikipedia

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

We'll do this with kissinger

[-] cqthca@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We could. I think he did a lot of fucked up things, just to get pussy I read his biography. https://www.amazon.com/Kissinger-Biography-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0743286979 I also read the book transcripts of the Nixon Tapes

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

xigma-male "okay" executes criminal CEOs

wojak-nooo "Noooooo! Not like that!"

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

Very telling how AI taking over art is seen as a huge priority but CEOs are magically immune to being replaced by AI, trust me.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

I hate that corpos made LLMs perceived as "AI" (now we have that term AGI for it), because it makes idiots like this think it's capable of thought.

[-] FOSS_Propagandist@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

Ten years ago my rice cooker was "AI" because it used "fuzzy logic" to keep the temperature in a certain range.

[-] disposable_cracker@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

That's been the case with AI forever now. It's just that the shiny new tech that the term refers to changes over time.

[-] cqthca@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago

Superintelligece by Nick Bostrom; he outlines the situation pretty well.

[-] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

You know, actually, the argument that we need CEOs because we need to have someone to execute is kind of persuasive....

[-] huf@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

Chief Executed Officer

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago
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