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While the argument is absurd, that doesn’t make it useless. At a cursory glance, anything is replaceable on the same basis that anything else is replaceable by AI. This argument may help correct some common and deep misconceptions.
I think you could have an LLM help out in decisions of the CEO, but part of that role is having someone to get rid of when the business isn't working out. A new CEO says "things are changing" more than switching out the prompt on the AI. Also, having a human figurehead is important for investor relations - if you've got a big investor the CEO might take them out for drinks or golf, and you can't do that with an AI.
Perhaps for some company in the future this will be replaced by AI salesmen talking to the right crowd and convincing them.
I am the CEO / Sole Worker-Owner of my CAD Automation company. I use the AI to solve problems in domains like customer communication, tax compliance and accounting, sales, pricing, marketing, product design, software engineering, and business process automation problems. Without the AI, I know bits and pieces about all these domains but I struggle with execution, delegation, getting overwhelmed, and putting important…
While the argument is absurd, that doesn’t make it useless. At a cursory glance, anything is replaceable on the same basis that anything else is replaceable by AI. This argument may help correct some common and deep misconceptions.
its useless because its potentially confusing and misleading. the author did not put this together for any other reason then to get some clicks or push some agenda. i would try to dive into the poll data they used but id rather not give them my business email
(It seems to be one business studies professor.)
The role of CEO is going to be different at every company. For many large companies, I imagine most of the role is managing relationships, both internal and external. You have very ambitious and accomplished heads of different divisions that are all fighting for resources, and also probably jockeying for your position. You have to be able to communicate with legal, people ops, finance, comms, marketing, sales, produc…
LLMs nails corporate political speech style though, that is the main way you realize something was written by an LLM. And that seems to be one of the primary ways to manage business relationship, swallow your pride and just continue spouting corporate political speech.
The main problem currently would be that the LLMs are too accommodating, but I'm sure you could train them to be a bit more ruthless just like real CEOs.
Be ruthless and political correct, and nobody could tell you apart from real leadership.
I am the CEO / Sole Worker-Owner of my CAD Automation company. I use the AI to solve problems in domains like customer communication, tax compliance and accounting, sales, pricing, marketing, product design, software engineering, and business process automation problems. Without the AI, I know bits and pieces about all these domains but I struggle with execution, delegation, getting overwhelmed, and putting important…
How do you know it’s actually referenced things from real tax codes that are actually applicable to you, without extremely careful fact checking (which would take at least as much time as an expert would take to give real advice?)? Seems it could very easily do things like fabricate plausible sounding answers based on tax laws that are, for example, a mix of different laws from jurisdictions you aren’t in…
Some people (either CEOs themselves or temporarily embarrassed wage workers) will bristle at this because it’s written from the perspective of warning/mocking CEOs who so readily automate-away workforces.
But an honest accounting would recognize that these automation processes have been happening for many decades, now. And maybe the CEO is diminished, but that’s besides the point that all of this just serves to accumulate wealth to the capital class, who’ve almost become sovereign (when Bezos, Musk, Andreeson et al can conduct independent foreign diplomacy or get a dedicated seat in the UNSC, I will be happy to revise this).
Everything is up for grabs, and if a board of ancient mummies can enslave a populace with an AI as well as with a flesh-and-blood C-suite, then they will. Because of the pressures to optimize and deliver more value that undergird our current society!
On the upside: an LLM probably lies less than a human CEO.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you think about it having an AI run a company with oversight from a board should give you much more reliable results without needing to pay the salary of hundreds of middle class workers.
i mean you might as well get rid of the middle class workers as well. Japanese robotics is advanced enough right? might as well slap some ai in there and start the inevitable. besides my girlfriend aint getting any younger im not sure how many quality years shes got left