Technology

I have a fantasy that someone tries using data driven systems to run business. They'd still need AI to do all the C-speak and top-tier sales work, but as it is upper management commonly resents their own workforce and enacts policy just to be vindictive.

Imagine a game company that didn't crunch because it knew crunching only slowed productivity and wrecked the health and morale of the dev team.

Imagine a company who didn't issue RTO mandates because it saw it's telecommuters are more productive and happier working from home.

Imagine if businesses didn't surveillance-max and micromanage their administrative clerks and fulfillment teams understanding that doing so slows them down and makes them miserable.

I don't know for certain that AI-assisted computers can run businesses and manage well, but we have countless examples of how upper management lets their feelings get in the way of maximizing profit and demonstrate incompetence and lack of adult maturity.

The bar really is that low.

It's parody right now, but as you read the article, it begins to make perfect sense that AI is far better suited to replace the responsibilities of a CEO, than the varied responsibilities of the workers, especially when the economics are taken into account. You can save millions by getting rid of workers, but there's a lot of work involved in replacing all those jobs. Or you can save millions by getting rid of a single CEo, and you only have to replace one job.

At some point, somebody is going to offer this service for real, and companies are going to use it.

Sorry guys.

It might sound like a dream, but these replacements aren't happening as long as the shareholders can't blame the AI when the company does something bad. They don't want to end up in prison.

Right. Parody.

I've read that one of the jobs most suited to takeover by AI are CEOs.

Will the AI CEOs molest AI children on an AI generated private island?

threatens

But the owners of the website have no control over the administration of business infrastructure.

Like, its all very tongue-and-cheek, but it mostly illustrates that our economic model isn't based on "efficiency" or "meritocracy". The folks calling the shots have their positions by way of inheritance, influence peddling, and state-sanctioned violence.

It actually makes a lot of sense

I don't know why this needs to be a joke. Assuming the rest of the company is minimally competent and the middle managers can write clear executive documents an LLM will probably beat the average CEO just by virtue of not having moods. The only downside is that LLMs can't do in person "social networking" yet.

This seems over engineered. I’m pretty sure a simple program that just replies “yeah sure” to anyone from the right department asking about something would outperform most CEOs.

Why parody? Try it.

https://overpaid.lol/ for the people curious

I love they had to call out it’s satire

Luigi had a solution for this too