AI, even in it's current state, is probably overkill to replace a CEO.
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?
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.
we talking about llms or the orcs in warcraft
Yes.
llms. orc ai would have already been overkill in the 90s
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
Or you could fire your boss and form a worker cooperative run on consensus based decision making. Worker cooperatives succeed more than "traditional" businesses and have higher pay for their workers^1, despite being at a systemic disadvantage for seed capital. You don't need an ai to boss you around, you and your coworkers can make collective decisions without any boss to speak of.
Ok I've had it. After decades I'm finally going to watch this.
Be quiet!
Come see the violence inherent in the system!
Did you see him repressing me?
I've often thought that worker cooperative call centres should be a thing. The people who manage call centres barely understand the contract because inevitably they higher management from outside of the company, since no one on the phones could possibly be management material.
It would probably make quite a lot of money because one of the biggest complaints that companies have about their third party call centres is inefficiencies. Even if the bosses wanted to fix the inefficiencies they can't because they don't understand the contract at a base enough level. In a workers cooperative that wouldn't be an issue since the workers would understand the contract.
Unfortunately it probably would face the issue that all new starts in the industry make, in that most businesses are locked into multi-year contracts with their call centre providers and can't just swap to a new provider whenever they want. So you'd have to time its startup very precisely as a big company came to the end of its contract, or you'd probably have to get some clients on board before you even started.
Are there any articles about examples? I only know about aftermath.site but ha e no clue if it is sccessful or not.
Here's a list of a few coops: https://canadianworker.coop/join/members/
The list includes federations of other workers coops, like the Federation of EMT coops: https://fcpq.coop/
Find any video on YouTube about Mondragon in Spain. This is a good one from Dutch broadcaster vpro. It’s like the 9th largest organization in Spain, highly successful in other words. The Marxian economics Professor Richard Wolff gave a ‘Talk at Google’ years ago that is in part about Mondragon. He discusses Mondragon in much of his work in fact.
There is also some academic work that shows that worker coops are more resilient during recessions and, for example, the global financial crisis. Here’s a DW (German) minidoc discussing that fact https://youtu.be/zaJ1hfVPUe8
Farmers in New Zealand are organized into cooperative, probably the biggest and most successful cooperative there is, and there's almost zero subsidizing from state for them.
French glass maker Duralex saved all jobs with workers coop: https://thebetter.news/duralex-cooperative/
I wonder if that's an enough efficient system, I'd love it to be, and it's maybe more efficient than the "C-suite" system just because of the cost savings not having C people salaries.
Worth a try.
I'm up, C/C++ senior dev :-)
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.
But how will it blame you for its mistakes?
/s
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.
Really nice and funny marketing campaign.
Wait what ? I really hope this is real
It's just as real at the OilWell app.
spoiler
In other words it is not real. But made by an ad company.
Dude looks like the Delamain ai.
Oh man... I don't wanna have to chase down all his split personalities 😩
Personally, I think they resemble Xerxes.
It would be the largest cost cutting measure, but the ruling class won't allow it.
Yes. If they did allow it, who would hire their nephew, then?
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.
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.
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.
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