The idea of subbing bosses for bots is the flipside to all those fears about AI, which often focus on the fact — quite justifiably — that it'll be regular grunts being shown the door in favor of intelligent automation.
But since c-suite execs tend to command high salaries, there's ample financial incentive to replace them, too. "My first instinct is they would say, 'Replace all the employees but not me,'" former director of MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab Anant Agarwal told the newspaper. "But I thought more deeply and would say 80 percent of the work that a CEO does can be replaced by AI."Part of the role of a CEO is being a leader, yes — and one imagines that a bot would be ill-suited at rallying the troops — but they're also decision-makers.
An impartial thinking machine could conceivably process way more data and make the most logical decision, free of personal biases, unwieldy egos, and perhaps moral inhibitions. No contrition over"We've always outsourced effort. Now we're outsourcing intelligence," Vinay Menon at the consultant Korn Ferry, told the. He added, however, that "while you may not need the same number of leaders, you will still need leadership.
In a survey of business leaders conducted by the IT consulting firm AND Digital, 43 percent of respondents saidmaking major business decisions with ChatGPT. At this point, why not make it official?as its "experimental CEO.", and they're not necessarily any less biased than the data they're trained on. We'd never bet against a cynical company's willingness to discount their human workers, though, so who knows. Maybe we're all on the chopping block after all.