bet: in five years there will be legal cases attempting to argue that AIs can count as legal persons, which will be for the purposes of absolving a corporation

bet: in five years there will be legal cases attempting to argue that AIs can count as legal persons, which will be for the purposes of absolving a corporation being sued for harm from responsibility for those acts as "the AI was acting independently". That is by far the most important and very plausible case Gebru is making and we will definitely see it happen soon. "Blame the AI" would be an incredibly easy way to absolve bad actors of responsibility if they could clear such a legal hurdle and all of the "AI is sentient" hype most certainly leads towards that outcome .