From my experience ChatGPT can handle the job of all upper management far easier than your average worker.
In my experience, most workers would do at least as good a job in upper management, but the reverse is not true at all.
In my experience a lot of workers start doing a really shit job once they get told they have the slightest bit of authority over other people. Sadly that does not mean they would be worse than other upper management.
Grug is best berry picker
Promote Grug to Berry Success Team
Grug has to now fill out excel sheets and schedule meetings
Berry picking goes down
Grug is sacrificed to sun gods for a good harvest
The business world is tough.
Yes. My upper management also hallucinates, confabulates and makes up pointless shit task in sake of having new tasks.
People would however notice, because AI wouldn’t throw occasional ego tantrums.
and the meetings about meetings
The $5/hr AI can probably out-produce CEOs though.
Prediction markets have been proven more effective than CEOs for decades. The economic system we have today isn’t optimizing for efficiency - it’s optimizing for control. Even if the CEOs are just using AI themselves, we’re more likely to obey an order from a human middleman than we are from an AI directly.
TL;DR: CEOs are Gaius Baltar
The role of CEO might actually be one of the most fitting for AI. In a co-operative business model, where employees collectively own the company. An AI could serve as the neutral, data-driven decision-maker. Instead of relying on a single human executive who may be influenced by ego, bias, or personal gain, an AI could analyze performance metrics, market trends, and employee feedback to guide the company strategically. It wouldn’t replace people, but it could coordinate them efficiently, minimizing politics and maximizing long-term success. It’s not about removing humans from leadership, but rather redefining leadership as a shared, optimized process.
I’ve posted this time and time again: the CEOs most valuable function isn’t making decisions. It’s taking the fall when the company fucks up so the board can go “yup we replaced him” and continue to pull shady shit after a while
Not exactly a high bar there…
If a job wanted to pay me $50/hr, I would actually try.
I get paid that much, and sure as hell respect the people making less, because they work so much harder than me, when I’m just sitting at a desk in zoom calls, occasionally getting to write a little code.
is your username the male equivalent of tigolbitties?
Males have breasts too.
Some are also big.
touché
(as I like to do with breasts)
