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If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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I keep thinking of that Warren Bennis's quote: "The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."

Only now I think the dog will be robotic too.

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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post #2

I keep thinking of that Warren Bennis's quote: "The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment." Only now I think the dog will be robotic too.

which means you don't need the man to feed it

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post #2

I keep thinking of that Warren Bennis's quote: "The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment." Only now I think the dog will be robotic too.

Lol what... Haven't heard of this quote but i just had a weird dream two weeks ago about a robotic dog that was with me all the time. It started to keep me from working (own company, alone in the office, a lot of jumping between software & hardware tinkering). It stopped me by being cute & playful. It was a very intense dream. in general.

I interpreted as coming from my inner conflict of being a father (6 months old) while also now being at the point of having the chance to work on great things. i have been working to have this possibility to work on for a decade every day pulling 12h-15h or all-nighters regularly... and now struggle with accepting the feeling that all of this is pointless & only my child means something to me. Because that would mean, all of the invisible effort i put in, will stay invisible & i will be the loser that i must look like from the outside.

Thanks for the quote, i already forgot about that dream somehow. Back to dealing with that.

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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post #2

I keep thinking of that Warren Bennis's quote: "The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment." Only now I think the dog will be robotic too.

which means you don't need the man to feed it

Nor the dog to distract the man! Perpetual motion discovered; nothing shall ever break or change in this factory

Strikes me as odd. Why have either? We're clearly in a fairytale - I just lack context. Probably a complaint with some creative color

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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There's also AI's dark secret coming out -> it's very expensive to run. But it's still WAY cheaper than upper management salaries, so, to employ classic MBA logic, they are the optimal staff to replace so as to maximize cost savings.

Color me skeptical.

The people making these decisions are not gonna cut their own jobs first, even if that made the most sense.

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