Abstract
'Autofac' is a text that is critical and representative of a possible future beyond the fourth industrial revolution where an AI-run corporation no longer serves humanity but embodies the biopolitical structure of regulating and producing life. As there are calls for corporations to balance corporate purpose and stakeholder needs, 'Autofac' offers a critique on the corporate form rather than one on the issue relating to maximising shareholder value. It is not about mere value creation, but rather how life is valued in a possible future where AI technology is merged with the corporation. Life becomes subject to the pursuit of value creation to the extent where personhood - specifically, that of the Autofac's consumers - ceases as a technique to engage in legal relations. Instead, the Autofac has created conditions for its consumers to only consume; however, if there is any deviation, personhood shifts from a technique of including life in law to life excluded from it. The Autofac is only able to achieve this through the ownership of data, which is key to the biopolitical technique of regulating life when it becomes linked to the production of the consumer as well as being the means to quantify value. 'Autofac' therefore presents us with the intersection of AI technology and the corporation, but also a possible future where life is steered towards value.