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How will corporate-mandated morality affect human morality if at all? What I mean by this is very simple.
As we witness the expansion of the Internet of Things, automation and artificial intelligence, "autonomous" objects will start to interact with humans and from such interactions conflicts will inevitably emerge. Since these new technologies will, also inevitably, cause damage to human life, either material or moral, companies will have to give these autonomous objects certain "ethical" axioms that will be followed to the letter. The obvious example is self-driving cars: they're going to face Trolley-type situations on a daily basis, and companies will program them to make choices based on axioms such 'human life is more valuable than inanimate objects', 'one human life is less valuable than three human lives', 'an old man's life is less valuable than a young man's one' etc.. But self-driving cars are just one example, and we'll have many such items inside our homes and offices, hospitals and parks. I'm thinking that, given enough time, we humans will start to mirror the ethical "choices" made by the machines in order to accommodate. Failing to comply with such corporate-mandated ethical principles will be punishable by law. I mean, are we really realizing Marx's fear of total commoditization of life?

>> No.10753321

Breeches of consensus reality are already punishable by law. Corporations already have the most judicial and legislative influence.

>> No.10753332
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10753332

>>10753303
>As we witness the expansion of the Internet of Things

Stopped reading here

>> No.10753335

>>10753321
But such consensus is still somewhat influenced by humans interacting with each other, not by human-machine interactions.

>> No.10753349

>>10753303
>In the future there will be self driving cars
>Therefore humans will follow the ethics of self driving cars
>Therefore not following those ethics will be punishable by law
Love me so good nonsequiturs before bed.

>> No.10753355

>>10753335
Well in the end the billions of people living on less than 10 dollars a day won't be affected.

>> No.10753368

>>10753349
It's pretty fair to assume that these technologies will be so integrated into our lives that our behavior towards them will be regulated by law. Just think of jaywalking laws, for example.

>> No.10753595

>>10753368
Ok, and?

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10753637

US guv-mint already captured by corporate cronies. De-regulation already has placed corporate rights above individual rights. Lobbyists in D.C. already writing legislation. We are doomed. We are cucked. Good luck and God speed, anons.

>> No.10753658

>>10753303
>>>/his/