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Importantly, the kid- an individual human- got some wealth somewhat proportional to their effort. There’s non-trivial effort in recruiting the kid. We can’t clone the kid’s brain a million times and run it for pennies.

There are differences that are ethically, politically and in other ways between an AI doing something and a human doing the exact same thing. Those differences may need reflecting in new laws.

IANAL ans don’t have any positive suggestions for good laws, just pointing out that the analogy doesn’t quite hold. I think we’re in new territory where analogies to previous human activities aren’t always productive.