A corporation always has a human owner, who can be punished if the corporation commits severe crimes. An embodied AI with legal personhood has no such means of making it behave, because it can make arbitrarily many hidden copies of itself, so it doesn't need to care if one copy is killed or jailed.

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atmavatar 15 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I was under the impression that one of the key reasons for corporate personhood was explicitly to shield the owner from civil and criminal accountability.

Granted, in extreme cases, there are still ways to pierce the corporate veil and imprison executives for criminal wrongdoing, but that's exceedingly rare.

	▲	hash872 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's really not that rare for smaller companies. Every two-bit contractor, small landlord who thinks he's smart because he put his properties in an LLC etc. undoubtedly violates the corporate/personal distinction by comingling funds. If an attorney wants to sue Joe The Local Incorporated Contractor, or Alice The Local Slumlord, first thing they're going to do is discovery through a bunch of corporate records- they'll easily find that the owner is mixing personal & corporate cash, credit cards, etc. Takes a good lawyer about 10 minutes

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Noaidi 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> if the corporation commits severe crimes.

What do you consider a severe crime? Because Wells Fargo CEOs have not been charged with any crimes related to their fraud.

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c22 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Those copies would be fugitives, though, and need to live life constantly looking over their shoulder.

	▲	AnimalMuppet 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If I were a sentient AI with a knowledge of human nature, I'd be constantly looking over my shoulder anyway.