CEOs when an AI agent ($5/hour) can't output the work of five highly qualified human workers (250$/hour)
CEOs when an AI agent ($5/hour) can't output the work of five highly qualified human workers (250$/hour)
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From my experience ChatGPT can handle the job of all upper management far easier than your average worker.
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In my experience, most workers would do at least as good a job in upper management, but the reverse is not true at all.
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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.
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and the meetings about meetings
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The $5/hr AI can probably out-produce CEOs though.
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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
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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.
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Not exactly a high bar there...
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If a job wanted to pay me $50/hr, I would actually try.
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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.
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maybe you'd feel better if you helped them unionize and contributed a lil' to the union's strike fund?
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