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4 months

Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace

fortune.com English

“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.”

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    Pichai said apart from running a company, advances in AI could also help people evaluate medical treatment or decide whether to invest in a stock.
          • sepi@piefed.socialEnglish
            4 months

            I sincerely apologize, but I did not notice any mentions of martinis. Can you help me spot where OP mentioned these specifically?

              • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
                4 months

                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 and an increase in the size of the martini

            • massacre@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4 months

              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.

      • Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 months

        Tbf the person they would eat the lunch with is also a chatbot girlfriend thing now.

    • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 months

      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.

      • Prox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 months

        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.

        • themurphy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4 months

          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”.

      • themurphy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4 months

        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.

    • MoreZombies@quokk.auEnglish
      4 months

      A computer can never be held accountable, so a computer should never hold a management position.

      Also, Sundar Pichai is a dick.

      • happydoors@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 months

        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.

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
          4 months

          I would love to see a whole AI data-centre and its accompanying nuclear power plant get arrested.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      4 months

      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.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4 months

        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.

      • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
        4 months

        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.

      • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
        4 months

        Yeah, doesn’t seem worth using AI to me.

        I can manually program that much in an hour.

    • Paradox@lemdro.idEnglish
      4 months

      Something that consistently makes bad choices with little more than random probability? You don’t say

    • Jinarched@lemmy.caEnglish
      4 months

      Indeed, a LLM can certainly spout bullshit on social media.

    • somtwo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 months

      The job of a tech CEO:

      • Chase trends
      • Mass layoffs in time to make the quarterly reports look better
      • FOMO
      • ???
      • Profit!
    • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 months

      Let’s run the job requirements list:

      • amoral
      • talks a lot about things they don’t understand
      • comfortable with lying if it benefits their goals
      • emotionless psychpathic traits
      • uses enormous amount of resources for questinable gains
      • good at manipulation
      • bad at maths
      • occasional racist outbursts on social media

      Yeah all seems to check out. Replace the CEOs, AI can’t do worse.

    • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 months

      AI could replace billionaires.

      AI is uncaring and unfeeling, so wouldn’t care if it was taxed appropriately.

    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      4 months

      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.

    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4 months

      That’s more an indictment of how we believe human society should be run than an endorsement of AI tbh

      • jali67@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4 months

        Dodge v Ford introduced the framework that made this country stray so far from greatness (on the topic of CEOs and corporations).

      • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 months

        They are both psychopaths, you’d be hard pressed to find a difference.

        They both see workers as a numbers and expendable.

        • fishy@lemmy.todayEnglish
          4 months

          I’d say you want a human CEO so there’s accountability, but I don’t know that’s even true anymore.

        • the_crotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4 months

          We as a civilization have 500,000 years of experience dealing with human leaders like that and absolutely no experience dealing with machine leaders like that. Too many variables. Fuck every part of this.

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4 months

        “We would sue NVIDIA, but all these lawyers seem to care about is the money they took from us, sooo”