<div dir="auto">"<span style="font-family:freight-sans-pro,sans-serif;font-size:17.600000381469727px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I came around to thinking that in some ways financial markets are that rogue AI that people like Elon Musk have been talking about...</span><span style="font-family:freight-sans-pro,sans-serif;font-size:17.600000381469727px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> in which you have an increasingly algorithmic financial system saying, "Hey, optimize for corporate profit because it drives stock price. Never mind what happens to the people. Never mind what happens to society." We're in that AI-driven situation."</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:freight-sans-pro,sans-serif;font-size:17.600000381469727px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.edge.org/conversation/tim_oreilly-reality-is-an-activity-of-the-most-august-imagination">https://www.edge.org/conversation/tim_oreilly-reality-is-an-activity-of-the-most-august-imagination</a><span style="font-family:freight-sans-pro,sans-serif;font-size:17.600000381469727px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div>