Comment by Jerry Davis

But are we doomed to an AI-driven world of relentless markets for everything, overseen by inhuman algorithms? Or can we, like Scrooge, depart from this path? Governments are not helpless in the face of threats to their institutional terroir. Labor laws can specify that anyone who meets certain minimum standards counts as an employee and is accorded basic rights of fair employment. Antitrust and consumer protection laws can limit price discrimination. Corporate laws could require transparency for owners and directors, so that non-human entities are not eligible to be proprietors. We’ve lived through the disasters of unregulated social media for society. Perhaps we can approach AI a bit older and wiser, and warier of the optimistic promise of VCs.