# Politics in AI Research

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**Category:** Lounge\
**Tags:** philosophy, ethics, politics\
**Created:** [May 31, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/politics-in-ai-research/8614 "2021-05-31T19:09:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![dmac](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/dmac/32/5842_2.png) [@dmac](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/dmac)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 2:52am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/politics-in-ai-research/8614/2 "2021-06-01T02:52:42Z")

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> [@My "Thousand Brains" book review](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/my-thousand-brains-book-review/8290/48):
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> Nobody I know is preparing for a “paperclip god.”

To play the devils advocate: are companies like paperclip gods? Publicly traded companies are non-human entities which exist for the purpose of maximizing shareholder returns.

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