A stunning 47 percent of several hundred CEOs and other executives surveyed in 2023 by Harvard and MIT said the role of CEOs should be completely automated by AI.
based and solidarity pilled, thank you executive comrades
Even if that happens, it’s not the win one might think it is. The capitalist economy serves capital, not CEOs. CEOs are just the best-paid servants of capital. They, especially founders, get a lot of capital themselves but conflating the two is an error and, in our era, largely a consequence of the rise of tech. A generation or so in, we’re seeing that the incredibly rich CEOs can step down without pausing the harm their companies cause. Nadella owns 0.01% of Microsoft. That’s $339 million, so not paltry by any means unless you’re comparing it to Gates’ or even Ballmer’s stakes. Still, we haven’t seen Microsoft shift into non-shittiness and won’t see that under a pivot to AICEOs that survive on electricity and newsfeeds alone. The problem will still be capitalism, even if it doesn’t have a head to cut off.
based and solidarity pilled, thank you executive comrades
God, it’d be so funny if a BoD fires their CEO to replace them with an LLM
Even if that happens, it’s not the win one might think it is. The capitalist economy serves capital, not CEOs. CEOs are just the best-paid servants of capital. They, especially founders, get a lot of capital themselves but conflating the two is an error and, in our era, largely a consequence of the rise of tech. A generation or so in, we’re seeing that the incredibly rich CEOs can step down without pausing the harm their companies cause. Nadella owns 0.01% of Microsoft. That’s $339 million, so not paltry by any means unless you’re comparing it to Gates’ or even Ballmer’s stakes. Still, we haven’t seen Microsoft shift into non-shittiness and won’t see that under a pivot to AICEOs that survive on electricity and newsfeeds alone. The problem will still be capitalism, even if it doesn’t have a head to cut off.
I really wanted to submit my idea of automating our c-suite’s roles to ‘boost financial metrics’ to our anonymous suggestion box
Looks like I might not have to do that at all