I sometimes wonder if the threat we'll face won't be a superintelligent AI but instead a corporation smarter than an amoeba. Right now corporations feed on money. They multiply when money is abundant, and only the really strong ones survive when money is scarce. Call it 'corporation space', the virtual space of the effects of massive amounts of money and contracts and supply and demand.

('money' could be resources, credit, cash flow)

We might have 'multicellular' corporations, but I don't think we have any that are smarter. What happens when a corporation can move in 'corporation space' as a real predator? A corporation with 'corporation space' intelligence as high as an octopus would be scarily powerful, and even one with intelligence as high as a shark would mean massive trouble.

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