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Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as AI Backlash Grows (www.yahoo.com)
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[–] 15 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Why do people go after the execs when the board of directors is the ones making the shitty decisions?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Because the executives are carrying them out (or instructing others in carrying them out) and thus complicit. By rights, they should be objecting to those decisions and refusing to do (or order) unethical or unconscionable things.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Ok, let's say a ceo objects to the boards instructions. They'll fire that CEO and hire another one that'll listen. The problem persists.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Then it would be the new CEO's duty to likewise object to unethical instructions.

    Mind, I'm not saying the board shouldn't be held responsible. I'm saying the CEO is still complicit, even if he's "just following orders".

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    You mean they are just following orders?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, and lest you present that as some kind of "gotcha," the Gestapo didn't disappear until the Nazis were removed from power, because they were the ones giving the orders. This isn't about guilt, it's about actually achieving something.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    1.CEOs are not "just following orders". They propose a strategy and some goals that the board decides are achievable and acceptable. The CEOs define the strategy. That's their job. They're fully responsible for what the company does and doesn't do.

    2.If Gestapo had been dying one after the other at an alarming rate, chances are not much less people would have taken the job.

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