I suppose another way this could happen is that the company could set up a branch in a much poorer and easily corrupted nation, since it’s not constrained by people, it could build up a very large amount of power in a place that’s beyond the reach of a superpower’s anti-trust institutions.
I suppose that’s true. Although assuming that the company has developed intent aligned AGI, I don’t see why the entire branch couldn’t be automated, with the exception of a couple of human figureheads. Even if the AGI isn’t good enough to do AI research, or the company doesn’t trust it to do that, there are other methods for the company to grow. For instance, it could set up fully automated mining operations and factories in the corrupted country.
Oh, right, I forgot we were considering the setting where we already have AGI systems that can be intent aligned. This seems like a plausible story, though it only implies that there is centralization within the corrupted nation.
I suppose another way this could happen is that the company could set up a branch in a much poorer and easily corrupted nation, since it’s not constrained by people, it could build up a very large amount of power in a place that’s beyond the reach of a superpower’s anti-trust institutions.
You’d have to get the employees to move there, which seems like a dealbreaker currently given how hot of a commodity AI researchers are.
I suppose that’s true. Although assuming that the company has developed intent aligned AGI, I don’t see why the entire branch couldn’t be automated, with the exception of a couple of human figureheads. Even if the AGI isn’t good enough to do AI research, or the company doesn’t trust it to do that, there are other methods for the company to grow. For instance, it could set up fully automated mining operations and factories in the corrupted country.
Oh, right, I forgot we were considering the setting where we already have AGI systems that can be intent aligned. This seems like a plausible story, though it only implies that there is centralization within the corrupted nation.