“I think what a CEO does is maybe one of the easier things maybe for an AI to do one day,” he said. Although he didn’t talk specifically about CEO functions that an AI could do better, Pichai noted the tech will eliminate some jobs but also “evolve and transition” others—ramifications that mean “people will need to adapt.”
Pichai’s comments come as other tech CEOs have also predicted the coming of a new era of chief executive automations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously said AI will someday do his job better than him, adding, “I will be nothing but enthusiastic the day that happens.” Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna, also said in a post on X earlier this year that “AI is capable of doing all our jobs, my own included.”
As much as I like hating CEO’s… Aren’t small company CEO’s included? I feel that at least some of those people risked it all to build a company so they really shouldn’t be bundled in here…
Collectives are better. Share risk, responsibility, and reward.
Of course he’s cool with AI taking his job, he’s got a golden parachute for early retirement
I agree AI could easily take on the role of the biggest dork in the company, which is largely what the CEO is.
The job of a tech CEO:
- Chase trends
- Mass layoffs in time to make the quarterly reports look better
- FOMO
- ???
- Profit!
Hate to add to this.
He’s saying it to heat up the topic.
These people liked the heaps of cheap good hardware after the dotcom crash, so now they want cheap good hardware, specialized.
You don’t even need AI. Just pay staff less and charge customers more, and give the stolen money to shareholders. Ta-da! That’s the CEO’s job done.
Yeah, doesn’t seem worth using AI to me.
I can manually program that much in an hour.
Because upper management is less checked, they make a lot of human choices, such as keeping a lot of bullshit job positions open as garden hermits (there for scenery, to look busy).
AI tasked with actually increasing profits may run the business better than their human counterparts.
Hype up vaporware. Be unprofitable but keep on hyping to draw in investors and inflate stocks and give yourself an inflated salary and sell off stocks periodically.
If get lucky enough vaporware eventually becomes a viable company or it goes bankrupt but its fine you already cashed out along the way. Yay.
Become the shareholder and pay yourself ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
Haha I like that emote
In a better timeline, if that becomes true, then bring on the UBI.
UBI for former CEOs/Trump’s big donors. None for the rest of us.
A computer can never be held accountable, so a computer should never hold a management position.
Also, Sundar Pichai is a dick.
Yeah, I see this as the real problem. Companies will use AI CEOs to take the blame when it makes bad decisions, whether it be to investors or in court. I hope we get to see an AI CEO testify in court.
I would love to see a whole AI data-centre and its accompanying nuclear power plant get arrested.
Not being held accountable is the main tenant of modern CEOs
They are incredibly sorry all the time though.
Which LLMs can already do very well.
Yea I’m not seeing any real difference. Something that plagurisng and takes credit for what others achieved and also isn’t held accountable for anything.
plagurisngplagiarizingWhat happened there lol
Was on the toilet
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I’m waiting for the day when a major company has their AI CEO absolutely tank the company.
“We would sue NVIDIA, but all these lawyers seem to care about is the money they took from us, sooo”
That’s more an indictment of how we believe human society should be run than an endorsement of AI tbh
Dodge v Ford introduced the framework that made this country stray so far from greatness (on the topic of CEOs and corporations).
How is an AI chatbot going to eat a business lunch?
One byte at a time?
And the 12 martinis?
Isn’t that just repeating what OP said?
I sincerely apologize, but I did not notice any mentions of martinis. Can you help me spot where OP mentioned these specifically?
Yah, it was a joke (perhaps not a great one) and /s was implied. https://lemmy.world/u/Hawke has it correct - the martinis were fully implied by “business lunch” often known as a “liquid lunch”. No apology necessary internet friend - it was strictly in jest and not being snarky to you or your comment.
They said “business lunch” which implies martinis already.
The three-martini lunch is no longer common practice for several reasons; these include
the implementation of “fitness for duty” programs by numerous companies, the decreased tolerance of alcohol use,[4] a general decrease in available leisure time for business executives andan increase in the size of the martini
Tbf the person they would eat the lunch with is also a chatbot girlfriend thing now.
You’ve never fed bologna sandwiches to a paper shredder?
That’s going on the list. My heart says I don’t need this, but my brain says I do.
Isn’t it the other way around…?
This was the ironic outcome of the Twilight Zone episode The Brain Center at Whipple’s ( @WP ): After the labor was replaced by automation, the upper management was easily so replaced.
Something that consistently makes bad choices with little more than random probability? You don’t say
I’m sure there are many jobs AI is not capable of doing but some CEOs probably do a bad enough job that an AI chat bot could probably do better.
I know we like to dump on CEOs all the time but a good CEO does not seem like one that could be replaced by AI, certainly not by what is currently being hyped. There are just a lot of highly visible companies with CEOs who aren’t actually very good. I suspect the dysfunction of publicly traded companies and the goals of Wall Street investors (or other nations’ equivalents) frequently not aligning with a good long-term health of a company has a strong influence on this.
And of course these guys will be happy to have AI replace them; they’ve already made boatloads of money and think they’ll be able to keep that going even if they lose their job.
Being a good CEO is 95% about social networking; creating and maintaining trustworthy relationships with others who will provide you with good support. AI can’t do this, as it’s a truly human thing.
What about when everone they’re networking with are also AI chatbots?
That’s why a CEO in the future will be 100% networking and the AI will hand the decisions over for him/her to “make”.
Why would you assume that the AI who takes the CEO job will be a LLM or “chat bot”?
It might use a LLM to communicate the ideas, but probably not for large scale business strategi.
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Oh how the turns have tabled.
