Yes, but what do we do about sociopathy?

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  • 01/03/2024

    Yes, but what do we do about sociopathy?

    Via John Naughton

    Luckily, Apple has just provided us all with a reminder — its rules for in-app purchases in the US, Simmonds discovers, provide “a jarring, but not surprising, reminder that Apple is not a real person and not worthy of your love”.

    Quite so. Repeat after me, all corporations are sociopathic — even though they’re run by humans. They’re what Charlie Stross calls “Slow AIs”, which is why it’s naive to ascribe their behaviour to the moral deficiencies of those who run them.

    Therapy or punishment? Or revenge?