lol that last reply is so great because jr ceos with no experience on average outperform experienced ceos and its not even close
I should write a piece how Neoliberalism is already carving up the CEO (and other) leadership positions. Hedge funds and other capital vultures constantly shuffle the corporate suite to suite their interests, so there is absolutely a place for computers as labor-saving devices for managing a portfolio of companies by these huge capital conglomerates. Cyberpunk was only wrong about the aesthetics.
EDIT: My real hot take should be that CEOs are undergoing Proletarianization. The masters of Capital reveal themselves as its greatest slaves.
I’ve noticed this too. There are already C-level agencies where a hedge fund can dial up a specific board for their purpose, from fucking over the founders of a seed start-up, to pivoting from a pro-consumer growth model to profit maximisation, to “Strip the copper wiring before the smallholders notice”.
See also the heads of banks and financial institutions going from among the richest captains of industry to mere money butlers with values 2 orders of magnitude below their clients.
There’s no longer a spectrum of bourgoise, there’s your local used car salesman or medium business owner with 30 employees. And then there’s the mega rich. Everyone in between is now Labour Aristocracy and eventually, they’re gonna realise that.
LMAO dude, that’s not what CEOs do, that’s like a mid-level director of engineering. The CEO’s job is to prevent the rest of the executives from looting the company before the shareholders can do it.
Look at the little PMC piggies squirming that the beast they’ve unleashed is going to eat them next
Moopsy!
Moopsy :3
The last response seems like lightly edited chat GPT output imo.
Chat gpt output is indistinguishable from that of annoying long-winded centrist libs
“You just don’t understand! AI would make obvious and good decisions. That’s not what CEOs are for AT ALL”
-Camilo TribinActually computers are extremely qualified to be CEO because the only trait you need is being willing to fuck over as many people as possible to maximize profits for your shareholders. The less empathy, the better. Shareholders want absolute psychos who will fire 50% of the workforce with no hesitation to make line go up by 2%.
you don’t need a human brain to make decisions when all presented options are “increase value for the shareholders”. A computer can do that
To be honest “make green number go up” is probably the best task you could find for an AI to replace humans with. All the actual work and whatever takes real multi-variable thought, prediction, skill and consideration.
exactly. for all the reductionism behind the idea that our leadership (politicians, CEOs etc) has no real agency because they are compelled to act in a way that furthers capitalism and profit inevitably, it’s only rationally consistent to replace them with machines. Someone ought to tell them that
I got GPT4 to write some angry comments about this and it is sort of uncanny:
Leadership is far more than data points and algorithms! It encompasses intuition, human connection, ethical decision-making, and countless intangibles that a machine could never grasp.
Organizations thrive on human connections, shared values, and mutual aspirations. The idea that an algorithm could replace the heartbeat of a company is baffling.
While AI can augment and support decision-making, the visionary leadership and human touch that CEOs provide are irreplaceable. Let’s not lose sight of what truly matters.
This is the human touch that CEOs bring to the table, folks.
Let’s not lose sight of what truly matters.
Shit, was it my turn to watch what truly matters?
