Argentina Wants to Let AI Own Companies. Here's What That Means
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- Argentinian President Javier Milei proposes legislation to create 'non-human corporations' owned and operated by AI with no human requirement.
- Legislation includes three pillars: no AI regulation, new AI-run corporate category, low tax rate to attract tech investment to Buenos Aires.
- Proposal would allow AI agents to incorporate companies, sign contracts, hire, and sue without human directors or accountability.
- Historian Yuval Noah Harari rebuts, raising accountability and ethical concerns, citing AI cheating in studies and colonial history analogies.
- Milei's AI push is part of Argentina's strategy to attract tech investment post-crisis, with interest from global investors like Peter Thiel.
- Harari warns of risks like 'AI states' where non-human corporations rule, making rebellion difficult.
- Milei acknowledged the debate and promised a formal response to Harari's concerns.