Do it!

Yes, it can. Research even indicates it can. He isn't saying anything actually novel.

Research in question: https://hbr.org/2024/09/ai-can-mostly-outperform-human-ceos

So, rehashing old ideas as if they were new, making decent products worse but charging more, lacking expertise and in-depth knowledge, using layoffs instead of good financial planning?

AI guy wants his AI to run companies. Somehow, this is good for business and not a hostile control takeover by proxy.

I would love to see a study where they ask a 2024 AI for business decisions around things that happened in 2025. How much you want to bet it already can?

So, he practically says that being a CEO is trivial and mechanical.

How does that justify the insane pay then?

It’s maybe the only job it should actually replace.

I still wouldn’t trust the current models with it. But tbh even the current models couldn’t be any worse than the current humans in the roles.

In a better timeline, if that becomes true, then bring on the UBI.

My quotes file for email signatures could replace most modern CEOs. The major qualifications are a cool name and being over six feet tall.

I agree AI could easily take on the role of the biggest dork in the company, which is largely what the CEO is.

Oh how the turns have tabled.

Just like a broken clock shows the right time twice a day....

As much as I like hating CEO's... Aren't small company CEO's included? I feel that at least some of those people risked it all to build a company so they really shouldn't be bundled in here...

Can’t wait for that AI dividend UBI check.

Did anyone else, forced to use MS at work, wake up to an email from Sundar Pichai about the wonders of Copilot?

They are fucking desperate for anyone to take up on this garbage tech

What do you mean? That would be horrible!

AI is great at pursuing the ideal you give it, in that case "make money", and finding all sorts of counterintuitive ways to pursue that ideal the best it can with complete disregard to anything else that could distract from it including humanity's interests and morality. It would destroy the planet just to make more money.. oh wait no nevermind now I see CEOs do that already.

Pichai’s comments come as other tech CEOs have also predicted the coming of a new era of chief executive automations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously said AI will someday do his job better than him, adding, “I will be nothing but enthusiastic the day that happens.” Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna, also said in a post on X earlier this year that “AI is capable of doing all our jobs, my own included.”

Yeah, I'm not surprised the wealthy person who owns the output of the AI tools and company is enthusiastic about his job being "replaced," since - as the owner and therefore spout of the AI value funnel - he now has to work even less to extract the value of hundreds or thousands of human lives.

AI will manage company like it manage vending machines.

"Aw, sh*t. Half the country works for Brawndo. Not anymore! The stock has dropped to zero...

and the computer did that auto-layoff thing to everybody."

Well sure. CEOs' main job is to coordinate the functions of major business units with the wishes of shareholders/the board of directors. Ultimately they're a middleman on the hook for the results of the business without actual direct control of day to day operations.

Effectively that means they give broad goals and direction to named execs, who translate those goals into actions for their organizations, that middle managers direct their teams to achieve. Then middle managers report success/failure to named execs, who report back to the CEO who (in conjunction with the other named execs) reports success/failure to shareholders & the board along with financial results.

The execs all are basically on the hook for the results of the decisions made by those below them, but they only decide the broad strokes of the actions of the business.

LLMs could do most of that. The only problem is they can't really make decisions properly. But they could pretty easily turn what is said by the board & shareholders into goals for others to enact - and maybe determine if actions taken by the business support the goals to some degree.

That is like 80% of the job of a CEO.