If you consider a profit-maximizing corporation a paper-clip maximizing AI, it's a hostile AI that's bad for people.
Then you take a look at Public Benefit Corporation, and what you could say goes on, is that instead of using "profit" as a measurement of success, it's a binary answer to sustainability. If a public benefit operation is profitable, it can continue - but it doesn't matter how profitable it is, because that's not the success criteria.
Another interesting place to think about this is "profit as A/B testing metric". Are user signups really what you want, or do you simply require user signups to sustain, but what you want are, say, user-submitted content?
If you consider a profit-maximizing corporation a paper-clip maximizing AI, it's a hostile AI that's bad for people.
Then you take a look at Public Benefit Corporation, and what you could say goes on, is that instead of using "profit" as a measurement of success, it's a binary answer to sustainability. If a public benefit operation is profitable, it can continue - but it doesn't matter how profitable it is, because that's not the success criteria.
Another interesting place to think about this is "profit as A/B testing metric". Are user signups really what you want, or do you simply require user signups to sustain, but what you want are, say, user-submitted content?