“I think what a CEO does is maybe one of the easier things maybe for an AI to do one day,” he said. Although he didn’t talk specifically about CEO functions that an AI could do better, Pichai noted the tech will eliminate some jobs but also “evolve and transition” others—ramifications that mean “people will need to adapt.”
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.”
So I’ve already commented on this post, but I’ve had another thought: imagine if your CEO sent you an email saying “we need to do X”. You respond with “no, X causes this issue, we need to do Y” and your CEO responds with “You’re absolutely right! Here’s how we will implement this new policy”
I’m no fan of CEOs but I don’t really want AI in charge of stuff either
They are both psychopaths, you’d be hard pressed to find a difference.
They both see workers as a numbers and expendable.
I’d say you want a human CEO so there’s accountability, but I don’t know that’s even true anymore.
We as a civilization have 500,000 years of experience dealing with human leaders like that and absolutely no experience dealing with machine leaders like that. Too many variables. Fuck every part of this.
Let’s run the job requirements list:
- amoral
- talks a lot about things they don’t understand
- comfortable with lying if it benefits their goals
- emotionless psychpathic traits
- uses enormous amount of resources for questinable gains
- good at manipulation
- bad at maths
- occasional racist outbursts on social media
Yeah all seems to check out. Replace the CEOs, AI can’t do worse.
Nailed it.
Indeed, a LLM can certainly spout bullshit on social media.
So… that means they’ll all step down and stop getting paid millions per year, right?
Right?
Guys? Right?
No?
…
😐
AI is advancing so swiftly, he said, that over the next 12 months the tech will be able to perform “complex” tasks and act as an agent on a users’ behalf.
I must be having the same deja vu for a hundredth time. What a clown.
They keep the lie alive to appease the stocks market happy.
And he didn’t specify how shitty the complex tasks will be done.
Can’t be worse than the shitshow he’s doing
Do it!
Never thought I’d hear honesty out of a C-Suiter
He’s afraid he’ll have to open his golden parachute before he can finish setting up his yacht flotilla
If that happens I HOPE we can Use our TAX DOLLARS to make Sure CEOS can Continue their Extravagant Lifestyle!
You don’t even need AI. Just pay staff less and charge customers more, and give the stolen money to shareholders. Ta-da! That’s the CEO’s job done.
Become the shareholder and pay yourself ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
Haha I like that emote
Hype up vaporware. Be unprofitable but keep on hyping to draw in investors and inflate stocks and give yourself an inflated salary and sell off stocks periodically.
If get lucky enough vaporware eventually becomes a viable company or it goes bankrupt but its fine you already cashed out along the way. Yay.
Yeah, doesn’t seem worth using AI to me.
I can manually program that much in an hour.
How is an AI chatbot going to eat a business lunch?
One byte at a time?
And the 12 martinis?
Isn’t that just repeating what OP said?
I sincerely apologize, but I did not notice any mentions of martinis. Can you help me spot where OP mentioned these specifically?
They said “business lunch” which implies martinis already.
The three-martini lunch is no longer common practice for several reasons; these include
the implementation of “fitness for duty” programs by numerous companies, the decreased tolerance of alcohol use,[4] a general decrease in available leisure time for business executives andan increase in the size of the martini
Yah, it was a joke (perhaps not a great one) and /s was implied. https://lemmy.world/u/Hawke has it correct - the martinis were fully implied by “business lunch” often known as a “liquid lunch”. No apology necessary internet friend - it was strictly in jest and not being snarky to you or your comment.
Tbf the person they would eat the lunch with is also a chatbot girlfriend thing now.
You’ve never fed bologna sandwiches to a paper shredder?
That’s going on the list. My heart says I don’t need this, but my brain says I do.
Isn’t it the other way around…?
The job of a tech CEO:
- Chase trends
- Mass layoffs in time to make the quarterly reports look better
- FOMO
- ???
- Profit!
Thanks, I hadn’t seen a ??? -> Profit meme in quite a while! : D
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
I’m sure there are many jobs AI is not capable of doing but some CEOs probably do a bad enough job that an AI chat bot could probably do better.
I know we like to dump on CEOs all the time but a good CEO does not seem like one that could be replaced by AI, certainly not by what is currently being hyped. There are just a lot of highly visible companies with CEOs who aren’t actually very good. I suspect the dysfunction of publicly traded companies and the goals of Wall Street investors (or other nations’ equivalents) frequently not aligning with a good long-term health of a company has a strong influence on this.
And of course these guys will be happy to have AI replace them; they’ve already made boatloads of money and think they’ll be able to keep that going even if they lose their job.
Being a good CEO is 95% about social networking; creating and maintaining trustworthy relationships with others who will provide you with good support. AI can’t do this, as it’s a truly human thing.
What about when everone they’re networking with are also AI chatbots?
That’s why a CEO in the future will be 100% networking and the AI will hand the decisions over for him/her to “make”.
Why would you assume that the AI who takes the CEO job will be a LLM or “chat bot”?
It might use a LLM to communicate the ideas, but probably not for large scale business strategi.
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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.
