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Will CEOs eventually have to replace themselves with AI to please shareholders? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by Yezzey@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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If AI ends up running companies better than people, won’t shareholders demand the switch? A board isn’t paying a CEO $20 million a year for tradition, they’re paying for results. If an AI can do the job cheaper and get better returns, investors will force it.

And since corporations are already treated as “people” under the law, replacing a human CEO with an AI isn’t just swapping a worker for a machine, it’s one “person” handing control to another.

That means CEOs would eventually have to replace themselves, not because they want to, but because the system leaves them no choice. And AI would be considered a "person" under the law.

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[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I could imagine a world where whole virtual organizations could be spun up, and they can just run in the background creating whole products, marketing them, and doing customer support, etc.

Right now the technology doesn't seem there yet, but it has been rapidly improving, so we'll see.

I could definitely see rich CEOs funding the creation of a "celebrity" bot that answers questions the way they do. Maybe with their likeness and voice, so they can keep running companies from beyond the grave. Throw it in one of those humanoid robots and they can keep preaching the company mission until the sun burns out.

What a nightmare.

[–] kingprawn@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Check out the novel Accelerando by Charles Stross, that thing is part of the plot.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out!