AI will manage company like it manage vending machines.
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2025
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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.”
Yeah, I'm not surprised the wealthy person who owns the output of the AI tools and company is enthusiastic about his job being "replaced," since - as the owner and therefore spout of the AI value funnel - he now has to work even less to extract the value of hundreds or thousands of human lives.
Just like a broken clock shows the right time twice a day....
What do you mean? That would be horrible!
AI is great at pursuing the ideal you give it, in that case "make money", and finding all sorts of counterintuitive ways to pursue that ideal the best it can with complete disregard to anything else that could distract from it including humanity's interests and morality. It would destroy the planet just to make more money.. oh wait no nevermind now I see CEOs do that already.
Well sure. CEOs' main job is to coordinate the functions of major business units with the wishes of shareholders/the board of directors. Ultimately they're a middleman on the hook for the results of the business without actual direct control of day to day operations.
Effectively that means they give broad goals and direction to named execs, who translate those goals into actions for their organizations, that middle managers direct their teams to achieve. Then middle managers report success/failure to named execs, who report back to the CEO who (in conjunction with the other named execs) reports success/failure to shareholders & the board along with financial results.
The execs all are basically on the hook for the results of the decisions made by those below them, but they only decide the broad strokes of the actions of the business.
LLMs could do most of that. The only problem is they can't really make decisions properly. But they could pretty easily turn what is said by the board & shareholders into goals for others to enact - and maybe determine if actions taken by the business support the goals to some degree.
That is like 80% of the job of a CEO.
Ffs just stop talking, dude.
The first thing a proper AI would do is solve the energy situation. Which will be allowed by 0 of the oil and energy industries. Solving that alone would reduce costs on EVERYTHING. Oligarchs would be out next. It's not going to happen.
They can just hire grok to be the ceo
As soon as they fix the memory issue, sure. Otherwise it’s gonna be schizophrenic.
That's definitely going to be a solved problem very soon with RAG LLMs. I have a friend who works in LLM research and it's crazy how much progress they make so quickly. Their cutting edge stuff he shows me makes GPT-5 look like a toddler.
RAG isn’t a silver bullet by any stretch.
Maybe he's just Pichai is just really smart and trying to get the breaks slammed on the AI bubble before it pops.
Listen if this works the way you think it does, half the country is going to be out of work. CEO: but our company will make a lot of money right, someone else is going to do it eventually anyway.
OK, look if this works the way it is supposed to, we won't need you anymore!
Oh shit, hit the breaks, no more AI, it's all a bubble anyway.