There are a lot of critiques about quite how to interpret the results but in this context it’s pretty clear lots of humans can be at least coerced into doing something extremely unethical.
Start removing the harm one, two, three degrees and add personal incentives and is it that surprising if people violate ethical rules for kpis?
Its unlikely Milligram played am unbiased role in, if not the sirext cause of the results.
If you deviate from the sub-cultural norms of Wall Street, Jahmunkey, you fucked.
It's fraud or nothing, baby, be sure to respect the warning finger(s) of God when you get intrusive thoughts about exposing some scheme--aka whistleblowing.
Experience shows coercion is not necessary most of the time, the siren call of money is all it takes.
> "Self-interest is the main motivation of human beings in their transactions" [...] The economic man solution is considered to be inadequate and flawed.[17]
An important distinction is that a human can *not* make pure rational decisions, or use complex deductions to make decisions on, such as "if I do X I will go to jail".
My point being: if AI were to risk jail time, it would still act different from humans, because (the current common LLMs) can make such deductions and rational decisions.
Humans will always add much broader contexts - from upbringing, via culture/religion, their current situation, to past experiences, or peer-consulting. In other words: a human may make an "(un)ethical" decision based on their social background, religion, a chat with a pal over a beer about the conundrum, their ability to find a new job, financial situation etc.
The stories they invent to rationalise their behaviour and make them feel good about themselves. Or inhumane political views ie fascism which declares other people worth less, so it's okay to abuse them.
>A computer can never be held accountable
>Therefore a computer must never make a management decision
The (EDITED) corollary would arguably be:
>Corporations are amoral entities which are potentially immortal who cannot be placed behind bars. Therefore they should never be given the rights of human beings.
(potentially, not absolutely immortal --- would wording as "not mortal by essence/nature"? be better?)
What is the oldest corporation in the world? I mean, aside from churches and stuff.
Corporations can die or be killed in numerous ways. Not many of them will live forever. Most will barely outlive a normal human's lifespan.
By definition, since a corporation comprises a group of people, it could never outlive the members, should they all die at some point.
Let us also draw a distinction between the "human being" and the "person". A corporation is granted "personhood" but this is not equivalent to "humanity". Being composed of humans, the members of any corporation collectively enjoy their individual rights in most ways.
A "corporate person" is distinct from a "human person", and so we can recognize that "corporate rights" are in a different category, and regulate accordingly.
A corporation cannot be "jailed" but it can be fined, it can be dissolved, it can be sanctioned in many ways. I would say that doing business is a privilege and not a right of a corporation. It is conceivable that their ability to conduct business could be restricted in many ways, such as local only, or non-interstate, or within their home nation. I suppose such restrictions could be roughly analogous to being "jailed"?
>Kongo Gumi, founded in 578 AD, is recognized as the oldest continuously operating company in the world, specializing in the construction of Buddhist temples.
If kills 1 person they won’t close Google. If steals 1 billion, won’t close either. So what needs to do such a company to be closed down?
I think it’s almost impossible to shut down
Legal systems are the ones being "immoral" and "unethical" and "not just", not "righteous", not fair. They represent entire nations and populations while corpos represent interests of subsets of customers and "sponsors".
If corpos are forced to pivot because they are behaving ugly, they will ... otherwise they might lose money (although that is barely an issue anymore, given how you can offset almost any kind of loss via various stock market schemes).
But the entire chain upstream of law enforcement behaves ugly and weak, which is the fault of humanities finest and best earning "engineers".
Just take a sabbatical and fix some of that stuff ...
>> I mean you and your global networks got money and you can even stay undetected, so what the hell is the issue? Personal preference? Damn it, I guess that settles that. <<
Do they actually though, in practice? How many people have gone to jail so far for "Violating ethics to improve KPI"?
