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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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Post by gcanyon »

Jensson wrote: post #15
sys_64738 wrote: post #11

Most CEOs are incompetent and those that get it 'right' is through sheer luck. Folk like Tim Cook and Zuckerburg are not successful because they're even right. They just were in the right place at the right time.

Not sure why you put Tim Cook and Zuckerberg in the same sentence there, one is a founder the other is a climber. Building a big functional company like Zuckerberg did isn't something just anyone can do, Tim Cook just took over a big functional company and made it continue do what it did before. I think it will be a while until AI can build companies from scratch, but I think just running a company and keeping it do…

The common narrative is that Tim Cook was the organizer and glue behind Steve Jobs's vision for years, and "just took over a big functional company and made it continue do what it did before" is a funny way to describe the tear Apple has been on for the last ~15 years.

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

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Post by api »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #18

The number of people believing that the primary job of the CEO is to "do" is too high. Actually, the primary job of a CEO is to take decisions with whatever information they have at their disposal. The decision may not always be right, but s/he should be able to make it within a certain timeframe. AI might likely do most of a CEO's "things to do," but the better CEOs are still going to be the ones who can take decisi…

There are some other jobs too.

A CEO is the head of sales for the company’s stock if it’s that kind of company.

He or she also tends to do a lot of recruiting or at least oversee that process a lot.

AI could replace some of the decision making and optimization for revenue, etc. but I’d see CEOs using it rather than being replaced.

Of course that will be the case for most jobs. AI will only replace jobs that are nothing but generating low to mid level content and/or making very uncreative decisions whose answers can be found latent in existing training data.

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

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Post by vessenes »

A fair number of r/antiwork type takes on this below. Since this is HackerNews, let's follow through the logic -- if the AI you're running is the CEO, who are you? You're the owner / shareholder / (board if you want to be).

This wave of AI is like giving a superpower to people who can direct/imagine/realize what they want, describe it, and (for now) glue together the output of the AI. A lot of the work is ongoing this year in the glue phase, thought of as 'actions' or 'copilot'ing.

We'll have a core directable glued-together stack that can take instruction like "make me a shopify site to sell cute mini traffic cones that are oscar-the-grouch themed, but make sure they don't violate any copyright themes, make me 100 ads to sell them" by the end of 2024. Who is the CEO of the shopify site? Well, if it could be AI, that would be great by me -- who wants to read ad effectiveness reports? Not me. Who wants to tell the CEO if their recommendation to scale up sounds good? I don't mind.

Additionally, I think it's good to remember that among the people most threatened by this future, it's those who write for a living. Journalists, script writers and lawyers, essentially. The visual arts community is a close second. Programmers have nearly infinite demand for their software skills; I'm someone who believes software demand will continue to go up for a loonnng time as costs decline. So, journalists are likely to have a sort of internal dis-ease that is really high about where we are in the tech cycle. Nothing wrong with that, but it's sensible to moderate/think "is their dis-ease reasonable for me to have also?" Hackers have got like a super-powered computing tool FROM THE FUTURE in the last year. We should enjoy it, and build cool things using it.

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

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Post by kingcobraninja »

armada651 wrote: post #12

An AI won't replace the CEO, because the AI can't take responsibility and step down for decisions the board of directors made. Now having the AI replace the board of directors is a more interesting proposition...

The shareholders would have to vote in an AI board, so we might have to replace the shareholders first.

wait

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

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Post by hackernewds »

Jensson wrote: post #15
sys_64738 wrote: post #11

Most CEOs are incompetent and those that get it 'right' is through sheer luck. Folk like Tim Cook and Zuckerburg are not successful because they're even right. They just were in the right place at the right time.

Not sure why you put Tim Cook and Zuckerberg in the same sentence there, one is a founder the other is a climber. Building a big functional company like Zuckerberg did isn't something just anyone can do, Tim Cook just took over a big functional company and made it continue do what it did before. I think it will be a while until AI can build companies from scratch, but I think just running a company and keeping it do…

Facepalming at the assumption that Tim Cook doesn't do much and it's something anyone can do

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

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Post by infecto »

It’s amazing the narratives people put together. There are a lot of bad CEOs and there are a lot of good ones too. Being a good CEO is a difficult job and it has a huge impact on the company. We are no where near replacing CEOs just like we are no where near replacing jobs entirely.

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

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Post by HumblyTossed »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #18

The number of people believing that the primary job of the CEO is to "do" is too high. Actually, the primary job of a CEO is to take decisions with whatever information they have at their disposal. The decision may not always be right, but s/he should be able to make it within a certain timeframe. AI might likely do most of a CEO's "things to do," but the better CEOs are still going to be the ones who can take decisi…

AI can make those decisions better.

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

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Post by jmkni »

vessenes wrote: post #23

A fair number of r/antiwork type takes on this below. Since this is HackerNews, let's follow through the logic -- if the AI you're running is the CEO, who are you? You're the owner / shareholder / (board if you want to be). This wave of AI is like giving a superpower to people who can direct/imagine/realize what they want, describe it, and (for now) glue together the output of the AI. A lot of the work is ongoing thi…

Journalism is an interesting one as, in a way, the most important thing isn’t being correct/accurate/imformative etc, it’s getting clicks

AI is already very good at writing clickbait nonsense, and if an AI can pump that out faster than a real person can, it’s game over

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