AI, even in it’s current state, is probably overkill to replace a CEO.
I’ve never worked for a company where the CEO was a value add.
I still don’t even know what they actually do that’s worth all that money, and I’ve looked. The main ‘skill’ seems to be schmoozing.
Being able to successfully schmooze other rich people is basically all they bring at large corporations.
Ostensibly they should know other rich people, maybe they can make some deal with some of them.
Eliza was overkill to replace a ceo.
What mates you think I was overkill to replace a ceo?
🙂 Thank you for bringing up a fun memory.
What about Clippy? Anoying, butting in when you don’t need him and otherwise utterly useless?
If you generate CEO through this service, there is info button that states: “Does not actually use AI, powered by the souls of interns.” So this is probably ethical enough to replace the CEO
we talking about llms or the orcs in warcraft
Yes.
llms. orc ai would have already been overkill in the 90s
It would be the largest cost cutting measure, but the ruling class won’t allow it.
The fucking irony.
it does seem ironic, but the majority of profits going to the CEO paycheck is kind of the point!
Yes. If they did allow it, who would hire their nephew, then?
Takes leverage away, it is throwing such a tasty challenge society vice, suck that passive aggressive back stabbing work culture!
I think the AI might have too much empathy for the role.
It might even make smarter decisions. The last few companies I worked for had total morons for CEOs, but they sure maximized short-term profit (by burning the company down).
I suspect an AI CEO would be more rational and science driven, instead of believing in some ideology that says workers have to feel desperate to be most productive or something. It’s possible they’d look at science and then raise the minimum vacation time so people are more productive and generate more profit.
It would be however the programmer programmed it to think.
They would generate strategies that maximize their objective function based on the training data. Obviously garbage in garbage out, but my point is they would not be prone to certain irrationalities like humans.
It might be possible to regulate how AI CEOs are optimized and trained though. You can tell a human CEO a thousand times “we only have one earth, if you all externalize your cost we will all die and have zero profits” but an AI might actually get it. AI might also be connected to a kind of crowdsourced democratic economic global forum, where people can discuss, complain and make suggestions.
AI also has a much higher bandwidth and might catch institutional problems much easier because it doesn’t have to rely on summaries of subordinates to understand how things are going.
More broadly, it might be theoretically impossible for humans to act according to our shared values - no matter what rules, institutions, education or culture we create. Like “theoretically impossible, the system always degenerates” because individual humans will always follow their own greed and lust for power while pretending to comply, and then using that power to slowly pervert the system and it’s rules. I believe that is the root of our current malaise. But even non-sentient AI might be able to help us just enough to make it work. It’s much more likely that those in power will use it for the opposite, but that shouldn’t stop us from thinking about if it can be used for good.
It’s also possible that they work people until they die, as all the AI from companies communicate and if you get fired from one, you can’t get work anymore. People are a resource that keeps regenerating after all.
People are a resource that keeps regenerating after all.
That’s what the AI would call “sustainable business practices”?
Huh I read a dystopian short story about AI micro-managing workers, constantly telling them what to do next to optimize productivity. It ends with near “perfect” dystopian wealth concentration. While in another part of the world they used AI to create a utopia.
Oh it was called Manna by Marshall Brain
The gradual takeover of jobs by AI (starting with fast food), The warehousing of the unemployed in state-controlled facilities, A techno-utopian alternative (Australia) where AI liberates rather than enslaves.
Wow, I remember finding that story 20-odd years ago but could never remember the title or author. Pretty good short story IIRC, and more relevant than ever, it’s themes have been on my mind on and off quite a bit these past few years.
I couldn’t remember it either. I described it to deepseek in order to find it. Ironically it mistakenly thought
the short story you’re thinking of is almost certainly “Nanny” by Cory Doctorow. It’s part of his collection Radicalized (published in 2019)".
If you find it, let me know. I think I might have been conned by deepseek.
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Why the Mix-Up?
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Both works critique technology-driven capitalism, but Doctorow’s focus is distinct:
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Radicalized targets corporate control via IoT devices, insurance cruelty, and policing 612.
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Manna explores algorithmic worker management leading to dystopian/utopian outcomes.
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I incorrectly merged these narratives due to overlapping themes of technological oppression. My apologies for the oversight.
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I actually think an AI would do a better job at running corporations than a human would. Even if it’s just an LLM. And I don’t mean in a pro-corpo way.
I have this sneaking suspicion that the company I work for is already ran by an LLM. The CEO is obviously using ChatGPT for everything.
Executives everywhere are. ChatGPT is near perfectly suited for handling a very large portion of executive level tasks.
My cousin was fired from his job. The manager told him that AI had determined that he was to be fired, and that it was out of his hands. Either that was a true statement or it was a convenient excuse. Kind of scary either way.
But how will it blame you for its mistakes?
/s
This is what I told my bosses when AI first showed up and they called a meeting to discussed how to leverage it.
It’s not going to replace me, it’s going to replace you.
How did they react to it?
Scoffed. They are firm believers that their wealth directly correlates with their intelligence.
Wait what ? I really hope this is real
It’s just as real at the OilWell app.
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In other words it is not real. But made by an ad company.
Damn it
Really nice and funny marketing campaign.
This is how we get Dalamain.
Delamain has shown me more loyalty and care than 99% of NC. I’m on board.
I mean honestly… delamain was honest. Which absolutely was better than 99% of night city. You get shot? Yeah he won’t take you to the hospital if his client paid him to take you to location z, but you knew that before getting in.
You get the creds for the primo package yourself though? You got it made choom.
Plot twist: board replaces the whole exec layer with CEO AI, keeps the difference, gives nothing to the employees, line goes up, employees now threatened both at the top and the bottom of the ladder, work-work!
When manual workers were replaced by robots, they were told to “retrain and reskill” to get new jobs.
Perhaps these CEO’s can retrain to be plumbers, there’s good money there.
Does it use AI to generate quotes?
Nevermind, it seems to be using predefined quotes.
It uses predefined quotes. I got 2 times same quote about thinking outside box.
Dude looks like the Delamain ai.
Personally, I think they resemble Xerxes.
Not sure what game this is, deus ex?
System Shock 2, one of the best horror game FPSes from the 90’s. If you liked the first two Thief games, it was made by the developers of them. Immersive simulations like Bioshock, STALKER, and Prey 2016 were inspired by this particular game. The remaster of SS2 is to be released on the 26th.
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Oh man… I don’t wanna have to chase down all his split personalities 😩
That took so long to find a couple of them.
The ones that were most bothersome for me are the ones you have to chase around. You can not possibly stop them until the scripted ending of the chase, and I just don’t like not being able to get them stuck between my car and a wall super early to just get through the quest faster. I like being rewarded for being better than they anticipated. 😔
LOUDER FOR THE
PEOPLECEO’s IN THE BACK!That whole website is very good.
They use the wrong color though, purple is good. They should be Red.
