“I think what a CEO does is maybe one of the easier things maybe for an AI to do one day,” he said. Although he didn’t talk specifically about CEO functions that an AI could do better, Pichai noted the tech will eliminate some jobs but also “evolve and transition” others—ramifications that mean “people will need to adapt.”
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.”
Can’t wait for that AI dividend UBI check.
He’s not worried though, so we know where they stand on how good this ‘AI’ is.
I would love to see a study where they ask a 2024 AI for business decisions around things that happened in 2025. How much you want to bet it already can?
AI is advancing so swiftly, he said, that over the next 12 months the tech will be able to perform “complex” tasks and act as an agent on a users’ behalf.
I must be having the same deja vu for a hundredth time. What a clown.
They keep the lie alive to appease the stocks market happy.
And he didn’t specify how shitty the complex tasks will be done.
Of course he’s cool with AI taking his job, he’s got a golden parachute for early retirement
The job of a tech CEO:
- Chase trends
- Mass layoffs in time to make the quarterly reports look better
- FOMO
- ???
- Profit!
As much as I like hating CEO’s… Aren’t small company CEO’s included? I feel that at least some of those people risked it all to build a company so they really shouldn’t be bundled in here…
As a CEO, you get to decide if your company invests in this BS. So your job can be quite safe if you choose.
Collectives are better. Share risk, responsibility, and reward.
I agree AI could easily take on the role of the biggest dork in the company, which is largely what the CEO is.
Hate to add to this.
He’s saying it to heat up the topic.
These people liked the heaps of cheap good hardware after the dotcom crash, so now they want cheap good hardware, specialized.
You don’t even need AI. Just pay staff less and charge customers more, and give the stolen money to shareholders. Ta-da! That’s the CEO’s job done.
Yeah, doesn’t seem worth using AI to me.
I can manually program that much in an hour.
Because upper management is less checked, they make a lot of human choices, such as keeping a lot of bullshit job positions open as garden hermits (there for scenery, to look busy).
AI tasked with actually increasing profits may run the business better than their human counterparts.
Hype up vaporware. Be unprofitable but keep on hyping to draw in investors and inflate stocks and give yourself an inflated salary and sell off stocks periodically.
If get lucky enough vaporware eventually becomes a viable company or it goes bankrupt but its fine you already cashed out along the way. Yay.
Become the shareholder and pay yourself ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
Haha I like that emote
A computer can never be held accountable, so a computer should never hold a management position.
Also, Sundar Pichai is a dick.
Yeah, I see this as the real problem. Companies will use AI CEOs to take the blame when it makes bad decisions, whether it be to investors or in court. I hope we get to see an AI CEO testify in court.
I would love to see a whole AI data-centre and its accompanying nuclear power plant get arrested.
Not being held accountable is the main tenant of modern CEOs
They are incredibly sorry all the time though.
Which LLMs can already do very well.
Yea I’m not seeing any real difference. Something that plagurisng and takes credit for what others achieved and also isn’t held accountable for anything.
plagurisngplagiarizingWhat happened there lol
Was on the toilet
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In a better timeline, if that becomes true, then bring on the UBI.
UBI for former CEOs/Trump’s big donors. None for the rest of us.
How is an AI chatbot going to eat a business lunch?
One byte at a time?
And the 12 martinis?
Isn’t that just repeating what OP said?
I sincerely apologize, but I did not notice any mentions of martinis. Can you help me spot where OP mentioned these specifically?
Yah, it was a joke (perhaps not a great one) and /s was implied. https://lemmy.world/u/Hawke has it correct - the martinis were fully implied by “business lunch” often known as a “liquid lunch”. No apology necessary internet friend - it was strictly in jest and not being snarky to you or your comment.
They said “business lunch” which implies martinis already.
The three-martini lunch is no longer common practice for several reasons; these include
the implementation of “fitness for duty” programs by numerous companies, the decreased tolerance of alcohol use,[4] a general decrease in available leisure time for business executives andan increase in the size of the martini
Tbf the person they would eat the lunch with is also a chatbot girlfriend thing now.
You’ve never fed bologna sandwiches to a paper shredder?
That’s going on the list. My heart says I don’t need this, but my brain says I do.
Isn’t it the other way around…?
I’m waiting for the day when a major company has their AI CEO absolutely tank the company.
“We would sue NVIDIA, but all these lawyers seem to care about is the money they took from us, sooo”
That’s more an indictment of how we believe human society should be run than an endorsement of AI tbh
Dodge v Ford introduced the framework that made this country stray so far from greatness (on the topic of CEOs and corporations).
