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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I have a fantasy that someone tries using data driven systems to run business. They'd still need AI to do all the C-speak and top-tier sales work, but as it is upper management commonly resents their own workforce and enacts policy just to be vindictive.

Imagine a game company that didn't crunch because it knew crunching only slowed productivity and wrecked the health and morale of the dev team.

Imagine a company who didn't issue RTO mandates because it saw it's telecommuters are more productive and happier working from home.

Imagine if businesses didn't surveillance-max and micromanage their administrative clerks and fulfillment teams understanding that doing so slows them down and makes them miserable.

I don't know for certain that AI-assisted computers can run businesses and manage well, but we have countless examples of how upper management lets their feelings get in the way of maximizing profit and demonstrate incompetence and lack of adult maturity.

The bar really is that low.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 points 10 hours ago

It's parody right now, but as you read the article, it begins to make perfect sense that AI is far better suited to replace the responsibilities of a CEO, than the varied responsibilities of the workers, especially when the economics are taken into account. You can save millions by getting rid of workers, but there's a lot of work involved in replacing all those jobs. Or you can save millions by getting rid of a single CEo, and you only have to replace one job.

At some point, somebody is going to offer this service for real, and companies are going to use it.

[-] BilliamBoberts@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

They are the most expensive piece of the workforce by far, especially when you consider their relative measurable productivity

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

They went mask-off when working from home saved money vs return to office. It's about power.

[-] tigermountain@lemmy.world 31 points 13 hours ago

I've read that one of the jobs most suited to takeover by AI are CEOs.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 20 points 13 hours ago

LLMs are bullshit machines. I dont see how there's any question.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Yes, but can they "synergise, the verticals, while hyperspeeding through deepdiving outside of the box thinking?" I think NOT

[-] mirshafie@europe.pub 5 points 12 hours ago

Sounds like you're using a 2025 harness on your CEO bot bro

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

You are really a thought leader, I'll need to ping some ideas off of you to help move the needle. But we will have to circle back. We can take this offline.

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

All of these ideas are literally the best things I ever heard.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Thank you for your value add

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I would say that doing so would mean that there's no one to hold accountable, but then I remembered the hellscape I live in where ceos don't face accountability anyways, so yeah...

[-] adhdsergio@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I'd love that but if you marry the fecklessness of a CEO with the ruthlessness of an AI you get weekly layoffs 😂

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago

Right. Parody.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 24 points 15 hours ago

Will the AI CEOs molest AI children on an AI generated private island?

[-] fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 13 hours ago

Why does this sound like a Mr Beast video?

The last one to do it wins what? More GPU time?

[-] Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

God no. They wouldn't do that, that's awful. They'll molest human children, so they can secure a large body of supporters.

[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 hours ago

Sorry guys.

It might sound like a dream, but these replacements aren't happening as long as the shareholders can't blame the AI when the company does something bad. They don't want to end up in prison.

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Yeah. Just look at all the CEOs currently in prison!

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago

threatens

But the owners of the website have no control over the administration of business infrastructure.

Like, its all very tongue-and-cheek, but it mostly illustrates that our economic model isn't based on "efficiency" or "meritocracy". The folks calling the shots have their positions by way of inheritance, influence peddling, and state-sanctioned violence.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 6 points 12 hours ago

Tongue-in-cheek* otherwise yeah agreed.

[-] mriormro@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago

I think that’s what parody is.

[-] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 157 points 1 day ago

I don't know why this needs to be a joke. Assuming the rest of the company is minimally competent and the middle managers can write clear executive documents an LLM will probably beat the average CEO just by virtue of not having moods. The only downside is that LLMs can't do in person "social networking" yet.

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

And they can't tell reality from fiction, though I think that's probably true of most human ceos too.

[-] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 3 points 12 hours ago

Although simulations agree with you, that LLM powered agentic frameworks are more efficient than human CEOs at optimising a company. They're also incapable of feelings, making the board of directors fire them in the majority of simulations, for being too cynical

Replacing CEOs with agentic LLMs, is not a benefit for the workers. Far from it, unless you prefer an openly psychopathic CEO

[-] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Wait, they have even less feelings than typical executives??!!!?

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 46 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

All true. To your question, however: until software can be named as a legal fiduciary, CEOs can only be functionally replaced. That is, a real person who can be summoned by a court has to take responsibility for whatever shit the LLM gets the company into.

E: way more replies than I’m used to, most re: same issue, so I’m clarifying here.

Preface: totally not my area, IANAL.

To clarify, I specifically meant CEOs can be named in a lawsuit by the shareholders for failure in fiduciary capacity. I didn’t mean a summons to answer for the sins of the corporation. TLDR: math models can’t be sued.

(But if I’m wrong I’m wrong.)

[-] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 23 points 23 hours ago

The middle managers can take turns as the Straw CEO for legal purposes. Or maybe someone can provide Straw CEO as a Service while living somewhere with few extradition treaties.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 19 hours ago

"We have no king. We're an autonomous collective"

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[-] Master167@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

That would be the Board of directors for the company since they select the CEO or virtual equivalent. But current laws don't support bringing anything against a CEO for a company's wrongdoing. Even less for the board of directors.

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[-] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 6 points 19 hours ago

middle managers can write clear executive documents

AI for that too. Middle management is just as bad.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

I've seen from personal experience that the only thing worse than bad middle management is no middle management.

Getting called all the way up to the VPs office to try and explain some systems architecture to a guy who only knows how to say "But why doesn't it work?!" at you over and over again is... not fun.

[-] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Fire them too.

Or as the premise is: have the AI tell the VP. That's who gets to write those documents now.

[-] super_user_do@feddit.it 3 points 12 hours ago

It actually makes a lot of sense

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 24 points 19 hours ago

This seems over engineered. I’m pretty sure a simple program that just replies “yeah sure” to anyone from the right department asking about something would outperform most CEOs.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 17 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The classic..

Middle-manager: We have 3 options, but only enough resources to finish 1, which one should we prioritize?

CEO: These are all great! I look forward to seeing the final version of all 3 next week.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

The primary role of the CEO is to solicit cheap lending from banks. A simple program can't do that. You need a real human being at the business with another real human being who was friends with that first human being in college and who now works as a broker at a big financial institution to stamp the loan.

This is every billionaire's path to power. Not via what they know but who they know.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 28 points 20 hours ago

Why parody? Try it.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 69 points 1 day ago
[-] robocall@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

Luigi had a solution for this too

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

THE solution.

Edit: just cause I didn't get on that Tesseract cool kids list; I'm saying we should execute CEOs in the street.

[-] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

I love they had to call out it’s satire

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