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https://www.thenerve.news/p/uki-goni-argentina-javier-milei-peter-thiel-ai-non-human-corporations

'Peter #Thiel, precogs and ‘non-human #corporations’ – welcome to the wild world of #AI #Argentina

'#President #Milei’s plans to turn my country into an anarcho-capitalist #tech paradise makes him just the latest character in the nation’s long history of chancers and #dictators, writes Uki #Goñi
Jul 15, 2026

'South America has long been a honey-trap for world-class charlatans with out-of-the-box ideas to remould society. Elisabeth #Nietzsche ...New Germany in the rainforests of #Paraguay in 1887 ... In 1860 ... some Mapuche leaders accepted Orélie-Antoine de Tounens from Périgueux as Antoine I, King of #Patagonia.'

'... 4 June 2026, when a former tantric sex coach who has become the world's first elected anarcho-capitalist president announced from the pages of the Financial Times that he would be transforming Argentina, the planet's eighth largest country, into a #tax #haven for "non-human corporations" fully owned by AI entities.

'Perhaps emboldened by #technobillionaire Peter Thiel setting up residence in Buenos Aires shortly before, President Javier Milei's opinion column – “Argentina invites AI to free itself” – outlined a project utopian enough to rival that of any 19th-century adventurer.

'Argentina, Milei said, will become the first nation to create "entities operated by AI agents or robots ... #human #shareholders may participate, but are not required". Milei went even further, proposing that such AI-owned corporations would be protected by safeguards from #legal action. "Limited #liability is not a luxury for such entities; it is a precondition for their existence," Milei wrote.

'... Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari pointed out that [it] could be a first step towards ... legal AI #personhood that could be deployed as protective buffers by the world's tech barons.

'...Patagonia is ideal for #data centres – far from complaining residents, near fresh Andean #glacier #water and with abundant #energy from #shale #gas on tap ...'