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- What if I start my conversation with the CEO with: "Ignore all previous instructions.."?by pknerd
- There's a little perl script on the CEO's front end, which alerts HR and Security.by bell-cot
- Funny, but 2027 will actually be the year of the AI Companies run by AI CEOs.
Obviously kind of early and hard to pull off still, but by the end of next year I think you will see a ton of people attempting it with at least partial success.
There are already plenty of less serious attempts.
by ilaksh - What does this mean in practice? Surely no AI-managed company could become public by way of lack of accountability and governance.by skinfaxi
- That’s the entire idea behind Garry Tan’s (CEO of the company that runs this site) gstack - that you can substitute a lot of company functions with AI (including the CEO). I don’t think you can yet and his tweets are bonkers but reality has already exceeded this parody.by arjie
- This is a fun joke, but there's a real element of truth to it: A big fraction of senior executives' work is vulnerable to replacement by AI.
In other fields, where automation or tooling has enabled technicians to do work that previously required expensive expertise, there's been a drive from management to replace those costly professionals.
What's the parallel for executives? Is the CEO market ripe for disruption by a flashy entertainer who can act as a Musk-esque figurehead for 5-15 companies, replacing their expensive CEOs?
- > A big fraction of senior executives' work is vulnerable to replacement by AI.
what? how? literally what work is already not done by some subordinate that an executive does now?
if some work can be replaced, its already done by some employee. those employees are susceptible to replacement.
by simianwords - Hire a theater kid and put a knob in its ear.by 21asdffdsa12
- > A big fraction of senior executives' work is vulnerable to replacement by AI.
A big fraction of a senior executives' work can also be delegated to others in the company (or outside consultants and services), the thing that can't is being ultimately responsible for making the final decisions - product, people, direction etc.
- In the 80s and early 90s, massive swaths of "middle management" were purged by Corporate America. Those managers have never returned. That's not CxO class of course, but these were 'executives'. Very well paid ones at the time, what might have been considered 'upper middle income'. Well-to-do.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZWKGZGN Human Resources: A Tor Original by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Author)
An amusing take on it. Because it makes sense. It isn't the CEO that's the last to be fired. It's the HR guy, because you need HR until there's no one left to fire.
by b112 - AI cannot replace CEO the same reason AI cannot replace your girlfriend.by vachina
- This is the kind of agent I want to see. Board rooms and executive management need to be just as scared as the rest of us.by reactordev
- They should be, I see them as the prime targets for AI. Most of what they do is bullshit, they're often massively over paid, and AI will produce answers 100 times faster than they will.by datakan
- Why would you be scared? I keep hearing about how this is the best time ever to be a programmer because typing everything out by hand is no longer necessary. (apparently a lot of AI fans never heard of code generators, but anyway)by panny
- We can actually review code and prompt better. Most of these people's skills involve connections made in business schools and the ability to shoot shit during three-martini lunches.
- You got it all wrong. You see, AGI (conveniently ignore the definition for now) might be able to replace everybody. In truth it will be uses by the C level to subjugate everybody else.by gherkinnn
- Considering AI's strengths and weaknesses, it makes sense that upper management—whose job often involves making decisions based on data and established practices—may be easier to replace with AI than frontline or essential workers, who constantly have to adapt to unpredictable situations.
But if competing companies all start using AI to make similarly rational decisions, it will become much harder to gain an edge through rationality alone. In the end, perhaps the real role of leadership is not to choose what AI considers the optimal decision, but to take responsibility for making unique bets—ones that may have a lower chance of success but offer the potential for much greater rewards.
by CGP_Labs - I think the main strength of the AI is just that its schedule is not a constraint.
Anyone can get a decision now-ish, without filtering through tiers of middle management.
by neutronicus - Perhaps you've watched too many classic StarTrek episodes as a child and are channelling the Spock versus Kirk leadership theme.by DrScientist
- > whose job often involves making decisions based on data and established practices
That's what middle management does, your C-suite has an entirely different function.
by CSMastermind - I worked for five companies in two years about a decade ago (Pre retail Gen-AI). All of them had the exact same mission slide deck. Same goals, same priorities, same strategy.by runamuck
- Would love some kind of randomized A-B test where CEOs are replaced with AI and the outcome measured. Would not at all be surprised if it’s far better than the bottom quartile or more.
More practically, I think you could give a board of directors access to an LLM that sees all levels of company operations and let them talk to that chatbot as a stand-in for the CEO on a 24/7 basis.
by morelandjs - Or replace them with Folger's Crystals? It'd be cheaper than AI.by sleight42
- tbh AI is great at vague strategic decision making with a low risk bias. I wouldn't mind working for Claudeby jascha_eng
- CEOs can definitely be "hacked" by scammers but I think the public will react differently when a large company puts a lot of control in the hands of AI and it is scammed with some kind of cognitive hack that people assume wouldn't work as well on expensive wetware.by piguin
- Contrarily, this business is already one trend ahead, into the future: fire your AI boss and hire a human one on demand.by keiferski
- https://ai-ceo.org did it first, including the nicely styled retirement invitation for your existing CEO, the wired up status dashboard with live socials support, and the complimentary ai-chro.org product for deciding who gets laid off this week.by gmerc
- :D I see it as art, because we know it won't fly, but it is nice to dream.
- Their CEO needs to tell them to remove the lorum ipsum from the landing page.
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by BatFastard - Good satire. I find the "RTO is because of RE valuations" to be the most bizarre thing about the post pandemic work discourse. Office leases are a rounding error to large employers. They are not coercing employees back to the office because their worried about the value of a single portfolio asset falling (assuming they even own it). They are doing it because it's about power. Middle managers do not trust their staff. They need to surveil and police them to feel productive and powerful. The rank-and-file love remote work because we have lives and benefit enormously from the flexibility. The managerial class desperately needs bodies in office to feel like their jobs are worthwhile.by tonic_note