It's just an experiment. But once this gets going, it's going to be interesting. There are a lot of underperforming businesses and CEOs out there. One way to make it after getting an MBA is to find a boring business with an older owner who's lost interest, and work out a deal to run it for a cut of the profits and a stake in the business.

The Andon people mentioned that they've been worried about "a misaligned AI (could) run a business to gather money in order to achieve whatever objectives it might have." That's a basic function of capitalism, so it will happen eventually.

What this adds up to is that when AIs get better at running businesses than many business owners, the "creative destruction" feature of capitalism means AIs ends up in charge of many businesses. The AIs don't even have to be super intelligent, just reasonably good. Reminds me of the remark from a Yosemite park ranger about bear-resistant trash cans: "There is considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists".

It's going to be hard to stop this without a worldwide crackdown on ownership concealment. The US allows you to have a US business run by a Nevada LLC partly owned by a corporation in Nevis-St Kitts and another corporation in Granada. This isn't even unusual. Try to find out who really owns an oil tanker not owned by a major oil company. Right now, a fund partly run by an AI might have partial ownership.

This is how AI takes over. Not with an army of robots. With an army of LLCs.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-market-ai...

I called back after finding the steps were impossible to complete. Would I need to go to the service center to do it?

"Akshually," the AI began, the steps were correct and quite possible.

"No, you hallucinated them," I pushed back.

"I apologize. You're right. There's no way to complete those steps in the app. You will need to go into the service center to do this."

"Okay. Is it open today?"

"Yes."

"It's Labor Day. Are you sure? Since you hallucinated your first answer."

"Let me transfer you to the service center to verify."

That's what I wanted all along, you clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous --

"Tesla service center, this is so-and-so. How can I help you?"

"Hi, I was just wondering if you're open today."

"Yes, we are."

"Thanks! I'm trying to add myself to my wife's loaner vehicle. Do I have to come in to do that?"

"Well, our loaner agreement only allows one person on the loaner. So just sign in to her account on your phone."

"Oh, okay! Thanks for the help."

Good luck running a company on one of these clankers.

Revenue: 13 933 kr

Token Cost: 14 882 kr

.. and a bastardization of the old Twitter joke:

"I told our CEO that our cafe keeps hitting its token spending limit but not making money. So I asked where he gets the tokens, and he said he just buys more credits from the console afterwards. So I said it sounds like he's building a machine to feed dollars to Anthropic, and then our data scientist started crying."