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8 - Salespeople, Supervisors, Owners, and Enumerated Others

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2020

Gregory Scopino
Gregory Scopino
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Imagine a world filled with sales robots that follow humans on the street while displaying a continuous stream of advertisements and commercials. Or imagine a place where robots try to sell their services to humans in a hyperaggressive fashion, without stopping their sales pitches even after being refused, on the grounds that they only obey their owners, so they will only follow the instructions (such as “go away”) of people who agree to purchase them. Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick dreamed up just such a world in his short story Sales Pitch, which was originally published in Future Science Fiction magazine in 1954.

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Hedge fundsinvestment advisorsrobo-advisorsassociated peopleprincipalsinvestor protectionfinancial market regulation
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Algo Bots and the Law
Technology, Automation, and the Regulation of Futures and Other Derivatives
 , pp. 229 - 237
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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