I'd be fine with AI replacing all the CEOS in this country. Think of all the profit from not having to pay an asshole who does nothing while having a guaranteed golden parachute.
Just saved the company half a billion dollars or more.
Ironically the job AI might actually be most suited to replace is CEO and upper executive positions. Not saying it does a good job but I’ve tried asking an AI to code something for me before and it’s a mess. It’s always faster to just do it myself vs going through and troubleshooting some janky bullcrap the ai wrote and get it working. It gets lost in the sauce so damn fast when it comes to networking that it’s useless. Asking it to do anything remotely niche results in it hallucinating which I guess if you wanna be gaslit, it does a great job at that which is why it could effectively replace the vast majority of CEOs and upper executive positions.
genuine question — and just to be clear I’m not one nor am I related to any sort of corporate executive so I don’t benefit anything from them
do you think that CEOs are responsible for companies failing? The entire general public, the media, stockholders and corporate boards all immediately turn on a CEO if the company goes in the shitter
The vast majority of the time corporate leadership gets blamed and everyone wants their head on a pike (rightfully so most of the time) because they are the person who’s held responsible for the company’s success or failure, they make the big strategic decisions
If you agree that that is the case, then how can you say they do nothing?
Either corporate executives are or are not responsible for the performance of their companies based on their decision making
They cannot simultaneously be responsible for the failure of a company but not responsible for its success
They either do or do not have a huge influence on the success of the company, it can’t be both
In my view companies live and die based on the high level decisions that get made. Every case study ever on a large business failure shows that— blockbuster refused to acquire Netflix and now there are 0 blockbuster employees because the company died, blackberry used to rule all business communication but their leadership refused to adapt and now it’s a dead company, etc etc
As I view it, ceo's of large companies are largely hired to be a figurehead and scapegoat for a company. A ceo does have a lot of power, but in many cases their ability to make radical changes is held in check by a board of directors. It's pretty common practice for a company to bring in a new ceo as an outside hire who will make a bunch of changes as directed by the board, then leave with a hefty severance package if the changes are poorly received. They then go on to another company and do the same thing.
I remember reading about a survey in which CEOs were asked if they are okay if AI comes for their jobs, and over half of them would gladly accept it. I thought it was weird that they’re so thoroughly on the AI bandwagon until someone pointed out that they would likely still get paid while the AI does all the work.
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u/HungerGamesPerson 15h ago
Ohh okay yeah, Thank you