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Automate the CEOs
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#22If the CEO is an AI, that will play well with the AI investing systems that allocate capital.
Ironically it looks like the truck drivers and shelf stackers will be the last people to go.
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#24Close. Automate middle management.
All the things mentioned in the article really are prime candidates for automation. But that's management, not leadership.
Management is primed to be automated. See Marshall Brain's book "Manna" for a great take on what's possible here.
Leadership is not. LLMs are great at doing the right things when there's a general consensus on what the right things are. Best practices, etc.
But what the current technology cannot do, and what I think LLMs specifically could never do, is know when to break the rules.
As Phil Knight may or may not have said (he was quoted in the new Air movie): You're remembered for the rules you break. That's leadership.
A great CEO needs to be a leader first and foremost, and a manager second.
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#25or perhaps people can deal with the true problem: people. who makes ceo-bot? people. not ceo people, but that paints ceos too harshly, to act like only they can do wrong. (they just do it with such gusto.) people are the problem. society. culture. not the existence, the current implementation. maybe in a few years.
Where do we submit change requests for People 2.0? I found a bug where people crash after roughly 60-80 years and can't be rebooted, they're just plain bricked.
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#26The CEO is the action organ of the board and is intended to be burnable.
At any point The board decides that the organization is not providing maximum financial compensation back to the board and shareholders, the CEO will be replaced for someone that will.
That’s the role of a CEO and nothing more
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#27…writes a person who's never been a CEO before. Which is not to say that AI won't be immensely helpful for running companies; just that once you're in the role for two days you realize that replacing that role entirely isn't going to happen. > AI can win at chess now. You think being a CEO is harder than chess? Come on. Being a CEO isn't like playing chess. Being a CEO is more like a really complex version of self-dr…
>just that once you're in the role for two days you realize that replacing that role entirely isn't going to happen. Journalists might very well say the same thing (when people who've never been journalists talk about replacing them with AI).
The kind of journalism that journalists want you to think they do - going out into war zones or directly interviewing people to find out new things of public interest - isn't replaceable by AI. The kind of journalism they actually do - hanging out on Twitter and repeating whatever goes trending there - is easily replaceable. They did this to themselves.
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#28CEO's and mid to upper management are about power, not doing things. Why is it so hard for us to understand something that is so simple and so obvious?
But what is power? It's an means to getting things done (albeit not necessarily 'doing them' yourself)
Power is the amount of energy transferred or converted per unit time. Whereas energy is the ability to do work.
Power is the ability to do more work, faster.
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#29If CEOs were as replaceable and disconnected from the outcome of a business as the author suggests, boards would've started doing this long ago and CEO salaries would come down as a result (lots of people want to be CEOs, and by this author's logic, virtually anyone can do it). This is so disconnected from reality it reads like satire.
Would they? I understand that in many cases, CEOs are often selected by, and their remuneration awarded by, boards made up of incestuous groupings of people who rely on each other in the same way. Their incentive is to award big paydays to each other.
Do you have any evidence that boards would not do this?
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#30This is like designing just the right shape of bomb to bring peace to the middle east.
Neoliberal solutions dont work on the captains of the neoliberal order.
If you want to bring CEOs to heel the best way to to organize, unionize and strike (if youre not a dev) or unionize and/or covertly work to rule (if you are).