“With talk of driverless companies and bots substituting for human beings on company boards either in part or completely, the spectre of a future controlled by entities devoid of human beings is upon us. We experience a visceral fear when we imagine corporations without people. But has the future been here for longer than we all realise? Are we sure we are not there yet? As discussed in my recent paper, there is no such thing as a company as such: companies are legal fictions that arise out of a form of collective imagination …” (more)
[Susan Watson, Oxford Business Law Blog, 6 January]
First posted 2021-01-06 08:36:17
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