I feel like this is a sentiment that should be fairly familiar to you if you have read Stross' previous works. There are points in Accelerando (2005) where semi

I feel like this is a sentiment that should be fairly familiar to you if you have read Stross' previous works. There are points in Accelerando (2005) where semisentient AI corporations are a threat to the protagonist, along with things like automatic legal-system denial-of-service attacks on other corporations. If you haven't read it, you should. It is here.: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...