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OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by [deleted] »

walrus01 wrote: post #32
mikert89 wrote: post #16

Not a joke, living in NYC, I have met a ton of harvard/yale "CEOs". Read their profile, see them in an all hands meeting, they look incredible. Spend any lengthy unscripted time with them behind closed doors, they are absolutely clueless. The trick is true access to these people is so limited, and usually guarded. With AI we do have the chance to return to meritocracy

> living in NYC, I have met a ton of harvard/yale "CEOs" > they are absolutely clueless. That's because you aren't asking them about their college rowing days, yachting, collecting weird mechanical wristwatches, equestrian sports, the best restaurants in the Hamptons or other matters on which they are uniquely suited for and qualified.

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Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by nemomarx »

ronbenton wrote: post #43

I think a lot of people in this thread are missing the point that CEOs or other execs can’t be replaced simply because AI can do their jobs. C-suite job security comes from power structures, not task execution.

getting them to admit they don't really do anything useful is kind of the point of the joke, right?

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by CGP_Labs »

Considering AI's strengths and weaknesses, it makes sense that upper management—whose job often involves making decisions based on data and established practices—may be easier to replace with AI than frontline or essential workers, who constantly have to adapt to unpredictable situations.

But if competing companies all start using AI to make similarly rational decisions, it will become much harder to gain an edge through rationality alone. In the end, perhaps the real role of leadership is not to choose what AI considers the optimal decision, but to take responsibility for making unique bets—ones that may have a lower chance of success but offer the potential for much greater rewards.

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by bratao »

I know this is a common trope here, and yeah, plenty of MBA-type CEOs are trash. But speaking as a founder/CEO of a small company, the quality gap between an average hire and top talent at the director level is night and day.

Proven talent comes with a massive price tag, but it's almost always worth it. The times I regretted going with the 2nd or 3rd place candidate because they were cheaper ended up setting us back by months.

The same logic applies to CEOs. Moving the needle for a massive company by even a few percent is worth billions. Just look at Lisa Su or Steve Jobs.

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by arjie »

That’s the entire idea behind Garry Tan’s (CEO of the company that runs this site) gstack - that you can substitute a lot of company functions with AI (including the CEO). I don’t think you can yet and his tweets are bonkers but reality has already exceeded this parody.

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by piguin »

morelandjs wrote: post #40

Would love some kind of randomized A-B test where CEOs are replaced with AI and the outcome measured. Would not at all be surprised if it’s far better than the bottom quartile or more. More practically, I think you could give a board of directors access to an LLM that sees all levels of company operations and let them talk to that chatbot as a stand-in for the CEO on a 24/7 basis.

CEOs can definitely be "hacked" by scammers but I think the public will react differently when a large company puts a lot of control in the hands of AI and it is scammed with some kind of cognitive hack that people assume wouldn't work as well on expensive wetware.

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by zpeti »

bratao wrote: post #54

I know this is a common trope here, and yeah, plenty of MBA-type CEOs are trash. But speaking as a founder/CEO of a small company, the quality gap between an average hire and top talent at the director level is night and day. Proven talent comes with a massive price tag, but it's almost always worth it. The times I regretted going with the 2nd or 3rd place candidate because they were cheaper ended up setting us back…

Unfortunately this is not what 95% of HN wants to hear, even though its the truth. But you have my upvote.

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by happymellon »

ronbenton wrote: post #43

I think a lot of people in this thread are missing the point that CEOs or other execs can’t be replaced simply because AI can do their jobs. C-suite job security comes from power structures, not task execution.

Oh don't worry, we know that CEOs don't execute any tasks.

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

iugtmkbdfil834 wrote: post #27
gmerc wrote: post #9

https://ai-ceo.org did it first, including the nicely styled retirement invitation for your existing CEO, the wired up status dashboard with live socials support, and the complimentary ai-chro.org product for deciding who gets laid off this week.

:D I see it as art, because we know it won't fly, but it is nice to dream.

Seriously what an inspirational Wednesday morning headline/LLCname, for us bottom 98.7% to romanticize.

I don't care who started first, theirs is a catchy Corporate Identity. I've been around since GPT2&CrAIyon (an equally-catchy name).

Hopefully everybody enjoys the Wednesday they deserve =D

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by _AzMoo »

afavour wrote: post #11
vachina wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI cannot replace CEO the same reason AI cannot replace your girlfriend.

Think you’re going to need to elaborate on that

A CEO's job isn't the one that everybody here apparently thinks it is. A CEO's job is networking, marketing and PR. They get paid the way they do because they can get into the rooms they need to get into to build the inter-business relationships they need to build.
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