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ungreased0675 | on: CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs
A custom-built AI would be pretty good at replacing a CEO. Think of all the things a company could do if they reduced overhead by that much?
JTbane | parent | next
You don't need custom built anything, ChatGPT could generate corporate initiatives and PR statements all day and no one would notice.
ottoflux | root | parent | next
100% been saying this for a while now. the main thing AI will be able to replace is a C suite.
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vjvjvjvjghv | root | parent | next
I still remember when I used ChatGPT the first time to write an email. I thought to myself “Oh. This sounds like 99% of the corporate communication from above”. We were joking that corporate had BossGPT for years and just didn’t tell anybody.

It also made me realize that most the so called “creatives” in marketing and PR also just repeat variations of the same few templates. Not much real creativity there.

mmmm2 | root | parent
The hallucinations would be a feature in this case.
grim_io | parent | next
You can get a lot of tokens for a CEO. I'd say it's worth a try.
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hoppp | parent | next
I am building a project now and then will create an AI to manage it and be the CEO.

The code is human + AI, the management is only AI

phyzix5761 | parent | next
Who takes responsibility when the AI does something unethical or illegal? Do we put the computer in jail? Or do we just look the other way like we do with human CEOs?
Nuzzerino | root | parent | next
I think Grok on x.com is a reasonable case study. There’s the stuff we heard about and then there’s a separate category of things that weren’t newsworthy, and only the newsworthy things prompted changes to be made.
stvltvs | root | parent | next
It sounds like you already know the answer.
watwut | root | parent | next
To be fair here, CEO dont take responsibility and dont go to jail. In rare case they do, they will be pardoned.
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rrauenza | root | parent | next
Remember the printer in Office Space?
Terr_ | parent | next
Robotics aren't there yet, it needs to go on golf playdates with investors and board members.
mmmm2 | root | parent
Maybe a virtual / Zoom agent could allow the elderly investor to stay in the game. When you get too old to go golfing you can still stay in the game.
ozgrakkurt | parent | next
AI means mediocre. Mediocre companies are pretty bad to work in. So it would guarantee a soulless and pointless company imo
ungreased0675 | root | parent
My charitable word would be average. AI means average. And an average CEO isn’t that bad. It’d be a deliberate trade in exchange for less spending on salaries. (just one very large salary)
vineyardmike | parent | next
While I agree that AIs would do a good job…

Would you rather take instructions from a ruthless robot or ruthless flesh sack?

yoyohello13 | root | parent | next
Weirdly enough, I'd take the robot. At least we can pretend the robot doesn't know any better. The human is actively choosing to be a dick and profiting off it.
vitally3643 | root | parent | next
The flesh sack is choosing to be an insufferable twat, and the robot either doesn't have any choice or has a decent statistical justification for what it does.
ungreased0675 | root | parent
A robot with access to all of the company data and mediocre decision making wouldn’t be terrible.
nobodyandproud | parent
I posited that one as a question.

Naive and stupid, but it was downvoted and flagged away into oblivion with zero chance for a conversation.