“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.”
Indeed, a LLM can certainly spout bullshit on social media.
Let’s run the job requirements list:
- amoral
- talks a lot about things they don’t understand
- comfortable with lying if it benefits their goals
- emotionless psychpathic traits
- uses enormous amount of resources for questinable gains
- good at manipulation
- bad at maths
- occasional racist outbursts on social media
Yeah all seems to check out. Replace the CEOs, AI can’t do worse.
Nailed it.
I’m no fan of CEOs but I don’t really want AI in charge of stuff either
They are both psychopaths, you’d be hard pressed to find a difference.
They both see workers as a numbers and expendable.
I’d say you want a human CEO so there’s accountability, but I don’t know that’s even true anymore.
We as a civilization have 500,000 years of experience dealing with human leaders like that and absolutely no experience dealing with machine leaders like that. Too many variables. Fuck every part of this.
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.
Can’t be worse than the shitshow he’s doing
The job of a tech CEO:
- Chase trends
- Mass layoffs in time to make the quarterly reports look better
- FOMO
- ???
- Profit!
Thanks, I hadn’t seen a ??? -> Profit meme in quite a while! : D
So… that means they’ll all step down and stop getting paid millions per year, right?
Right?
Guys? Right?
No?
…
😐
So I’ve already commented on this post, but I’ve had another thought: imagine if your CEO sent you an email saying “we need to do X”. You respond with “no, X causes this issue, we need to do Y” and your CEO responds with “You’re absolutely right! Here’s how we will implement this new policy”
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.
Never thought I’d hear honesty out of a C-Suiter
He’s afraid he’ll have to open his golden parachute before he can finish setting up his yacht flotilla
Of course he’s cool with AI taking his job, he’s got a golden parachute for early retirement
Do it!
Yes, it can. Research even indicates it can. He isn’t saying anything actually novel.
Research in question: https://hbr.org/2024/09/ai-can-mostly-outperform-human-ceos
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?
It’s maybe the only job it should actually replace.
I still wouldn’t trust the current models with it. But tbh even the current models couldn’t be any worse than the current humans in the roles.
I agree AI could easily take on the role of the biggest dork in the company, which is largely what the CEO is.
