In fact, the argument can be made that corporations ARE agents in the AI sense, distinct from the cells/humans who they comprise.
SF author Charles Stross once made an extended analogy where corporations are alien invaders: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders-from-mars.html
SF author Charles Stross once made an extended analogy where corporations are alien invaders: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders-from-mars.html