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Re: ::scr hacking in life
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 15:48, you wrote:
> Is there anything else people would like to do that's illegal? [0]
I'd love to create an AI company with no human directors.
In summary, this would involve having a computer wired up to the Internet
with an electronic banking facility.
It would hire agents to be the registered office - this is quite common
anyway.
It would hire agents to sign things and negotiate contracts.
It would basically outsource everything required to run the company, and sit
there shuffling money around and using algorithms to buy and sell stuff. It
could do all sorts of business - buying and selling commodities (without them
leaving the warehouses, of course! Outsource all that!).
It could, each year, hire some business consultants to suggest new businesses
it should look into or changes into its existing business practices, and then
hire a software firm to write a module for it.
The illegal part is that it would have no real shareholders and no real
directors, they'd be imaginary people.
The interesting thing would be getting all these outsourced agencies to not
realise that it isn't sentient. They would receive purchase orders by fax,
post, or (maybe one day!) PGP-ed email, and be requested to reply only in
certain specified formats so it could understand them. Any mail it didn't
understand would have to be... outsourced to a human.
All the real work would be done by people, yes. But people under computer
control. The final say would be in its hands. This is kind of interesting.
If people didn't pay it, it'd even hire the lads to pay them a visit for a
little chat.
ABS
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Alaric B. Snell
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Any sufficiently advanced technology can be emulated in software