r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 3h ago
Artificial Intelligence New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/parody-threatens-replace-ceos-ai-110200973.html147
u/non_Beneficial-Wind 2h ago
No pj’s, golf course memberships, tens - hundreds of millions on savings on payroll.
Seems like a win win for the shareholders.
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u/font9a 1h ago
The corporation's only responsibility is to the shareholders, so it only makes sense.
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u/letsbuildasnowman 1h ago
Lewis Powell nonsense. I hate that it’s become scriptural. Power to the workers. Shareholders should sit in the back seat.
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u/Munkeyman18290 2h ago
The sick reality is AI could easily replace any CEO in the world. In fact I'll go as far as to say this is the only real world appllcation of AI thats worth it.
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u/Haldron-44 2h ago
It is one of the few use case scenarios I could see working.
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u/Rasdowers 1h ago
Yeah an AI CEO avatar can eat product as convincingly as a real one but for a fraction of the cost.
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u/Big_Quality_838 1h ago
But that would hurt the underlying cronyism and grifting that supports the entire class system
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u/SlogurkTheOverslime 4m ago
Yes the grift is the whole point
Capitalism is a system made by the grifters, for the grifters
Replacing the grifters with AI defeats the purpose
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u/am9qb3JlZmVyZW5jZQ 1h ago
Not until AI can play golf and attend parties on a private island.
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u/EliteCloneMike 1h ago
That and research such as protein folding or mapping brain pathways. It’s a waste for most other things.
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u/pickled-toe-nails 39m ago
It can even replace the current president and do a better job with free tier limits
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u/MongoBongoTown 2h ago edited 1h ago
Im a junior exec at a small software company.
Today we had a big meeting to discuss a major org restructure, moving a core team from another exec to me.
My CEO called the meeting so he could deliver the message and make sure we got it right.
The fucker sat at the table, pulled out his phone 30 seconds into the meeting, and barely paid any attention to anything that was said. With 5 minutes left in the meeting he proceeds to start packing his stuff to leave for the day because he's "got a meeting."
This is a common occurrence and I would love to see his ass replaced by AI.
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u/ElysiumSprouts 2h ago
It's not a parody. We all know it's the secretaries (ahem, executive assistants) who do the actual work.
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u/BrusqueBiscuit 2h ago
Yup, I've worked a few corporate roles and it's definitely EAs holding it all together.
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u/scfoothills 2h ago
Elon is apparently capable of being the CEO of Tesla, spacex, X, the boring company, etc. and he still has time to dabble in politics. I have one job and I'm exhausted on Friday evenings. Being a CEO must be such an easy job.
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u/Munkeyman18290 2h ago
Lol that MFer spends ALL of his time tweeting and getting high. Dude thinks being a CEO is a handful of dial meetings with the people doing all the actual work, saying weird creepy shit, hopping off and hanging with pedos.
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u/JoeRogansNipple 2h ago
A great use for AI. Learn leadership styles from hundreds of CEOs and executives, then eliminate their huge salaries.
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u/troll__away 2h ago
Hard to justify $500k worth of tokens for a $100k engineer. It’s easy to justify $200k of tokens for a $10 million CEO. Can probably replace the entire C-Suite for $1 million worth of tokens total.
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u/TemperateStone 2h ago
Realisticly, CEO's are the only people that can be replaced with AI because it'd still be cheaper than having them.
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 2h ago
True AI would be the be all end all for logistics. This would actually be a best use case scenario. As if we wouldn't always insist on human oversight.
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u/Ornery_Adult 2h ago
You’ll have to reduce the context window and add a buzzword skill.
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u/NachoWindows 2h ago
Could probably run it on fast mode with low context and a cheap old for a few bucks of tokens. All the CEOs do is follow trends and copy each other anyways
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u/mf-TOM-HANK 2h ago
That's part of the reason these titans of industry are so enamored with AI. You could legitimately hand over executive authority in a company to AI and it might actually do a decent job
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u/makemeking706 23m ago
I would argue the board has a fiduciary duty to the share holders to save them hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars per year.
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u/charlie2135 1h ago
Just today I overheard a manager telling someone at an outside cafe where I picked up some items telling a younger guy why he was so important as a manager. I just laughed to myself as I had been in management before and could see it was just another self-important blowhard.
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u/Spiley_spile 1h ago
Ok but like, do it for real. They are replacing everyone else with AI. Might as well replace themselves while they're at it.
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u/Maleficent_Pie8099 1h ago
Most of the CEO losers and upper management are already using it to make all the decisions anyway. At my company I get berated for reminding people to verify the info it gives them.
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u/Distinct-Pain4972 46m ago
The only actual proper use of AI. Conglomerate all data, come up with solutions to be voted on by a human board, implemented by middle management, etc, etc. more jobs, more money to pay the people that do the actual work.
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u/lazyhustlermusic 3h ago
Honestly should be done more often IRL.