My current favorite is #4, but that’s a transitionary state. Corporations are neither benevolent nor malevolent, they are self-sustaining agent-like actors with somewhat opaque causality behind their actions. Much like AI, for that matter. They will appear benevolent as long as there are sufficient opposing forces that they need the illusion, and then reveal their disinterest when it’s no longer true.
My current favorite is #4, but that’s a transitionary state. Corporations are neither benevolent nor malevolent, they are self-sustaining agent-like actors with somewhat opaque causality behind their actions. Much like AI, for that matter. They will appear benevolent as long as there are sufficient opposing forces that they need the illusion, and then reveal their disinterest when it’s no longer true.