Submitted 1 day ago by neme@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theverge.com/news/673194/tech-ceos-zoom-klarna-replace-earnings
I think we’re within 2-3 years of our first fully AI CEO.
As in, board of investors removes their last human CEO, and pays an AI company for an AI that does a job of the CEO at a fraction of a percentage of the cost.
And then one year after that is evidence than an AI CEO outperforms human CEO’s.
My understanding is the most “useful” thing a CEO typically does is schmooze with other rich assholes. A lot of companies need funding, and a lot of funding is handed out based on vibes. A good CEO makes friends with the assholes handing out money. That’s hard to replace with AI, probably.
On the other hand, CEOs routinely make stupid decisions. Maybe cutting that out makes up for the loss in funding opportunities?
Also this capitalist hellscape sucks. labor should unite instead of letting business idiots take most of the value they create.
That’s kinda my line of thinking - it’s all based on vibes, and AI actually has better vibes in the view of most people than your average CEO.
Yeah it’s not gonna schmooze in the traditional sense, but it will introduce itself as the smartest and most competent amalgamation of the best and most successful CEO’s in history, with none of the weaknesses or greed or vice of a human CEO.
I bet investors will jump on pretty quick for the first AI CEO, and more companies will follow after.
I have a fundamental question.
labor should unite instead of letting business idiots take most of the value they create.
In case you actually manage to do that, and the factories run in fact so well that a million workers are enough to provide the whole US with all the food and consumer articles they need.
Then what do the other 331 million USians do? They would not have a job and therefore no source of income. They would revolt and a civil war would erupt? How would you deal with that?
This just feels straight up lazy and exploitative given their salaries.
Also, if this is normalized across your company, what the hell would meetings be? A group of avatars talking while humans do other stuff? “If the CEO can do it, why not us?”
If we’re at that point, let’s go ahead to UBI, because the smoke screen is falling about how BS this whole facade is.
I’ve been floating the idea a couple of times that UBI doesn’t need to be implemented “all at once”. For example, maybe a very test-version UBI could handout $100 to everyone. That’s not enough to live on, but it would provide a good support, especially to low-income households, as they benefit relatively more.
It’s unironically the one thing AI would probably be better at so far as I can tell.
Is this how CEOs will escape giving away “tells” when they lie during these meetings?
WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
So even the little tiny bit of work they have to do to justify their obscene salaries is too much for them.
MrPibb@lemmynsfw.com 23 hours ago
All the while pushing ridiculous RTO agendas.
Pistcow@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
While they WFM (work from mansion).
WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
They need to be sitting in their plush offices at the top of buildings full of busy workers to keep up the pretense that they deserve their obscene pay. Sitting in a plush office at the top of an empty building just shines a spotlight on how useless they actually are.