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[–] 73 points 1 day ago (10 children)

If these are relatively inexpensive to set up and dispose of, corporations could even set them up automatically for individual consumer transactions and between individual employees and themselves.

For example, you go to a fast food restaurant, and you are actually being served by McGermKing Franchise 6d8f3cee-b10b-442b-b00b-02683a709f70 Ltd, founded 2 seconds ago, and leasing the right to operate in the building amongst other similar AI companies, as well as the part-time services of McGermKing Employment Services fd176cc4-bb95-4c1b-80e7-2aec39f02917, who hires a human to take your order, and McGermKing Employment Services 5336b4f1-0594-4df1-8387-5ec9b638db77, who assembles your GermBurger (TM used under licence by McGermKing Franchise 6d8f3cee-b10b-442b-b00b-02683a709f70 Ltd).

If you pay them and they make money, it goes back to the owner. If you get food poisoning and sue McGermKing Franchise 6d8f3cee-b10b-442b-b00b-02683a709f70 Ltd (since the parent company is totally innocent and some other subsidiaries are just honest suppliers), it comes out of the money they made selling you the burger, and if their liability to you was higher than the cost of one burger, well, the AI corporation tried its honest best at business, but you can line up for your share of the payout - keeping in mind they also owe franchise fees to the parent company out of that burger, so the AI liquidator will divide up the assets, and if it doesn't cover liabilities, the parent company loses its 50c investment into McGermKing Franchise 6d8f3cee-b10b-442b-b00b-02683a709f70 Ltd, and how sad it was a bad outcome for you as a creditor.

Likewise if an employee gets hurt, same story.

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  • [–] 5 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

    That sounds like some shit straight out of Snowcrash. And then we got ICE buying a couple of robot dogs...

    “As part of Mr. Lee's good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area. But Fido's in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy. Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.”

    ― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    Don't forget the electric shock torture gloves that ICE recently ordered.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Only if that costs as much as generating a UUID and making a request, because they already can make laws for themselves with no resistance.

    Otherwise a parent company has their butt in peril just because of that "parent" word. Pretty similarly to managing a database for some website.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I feel like that would survive 2 milliseconds in court

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    I think it's actually the legislative intent that they can do stuff like that and blame it on the AI. If the law says that there's no liability unless it was intentional fraud, then the courts are going to follow that unless there is a higher law that overrides it.

    That's why it's important to fight things like this before they become law.

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