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The irony is that I’d totally test out replacing the CEO with AI - best bang for buck by a million miles


Me too. I bet AIs could run a company much better than all of those lavishly paid CEOs. Can't wait for Cyberpunk's Delamain to become a reality.


Who controls the prompt? Shareholders? And how do you have confidence that the prompt is being used? Just thinking out loud, it’s an interesting idea (even if it might be terrible and dystopian).


Based on existing corporate hierarchy it would probably be the board of directors. There would be some sort of collaboration service where managers/agents push up problems and solutions to the board and they vote yes or no


The grandparent comment of yours mentioned Delamain from Cyberpunk 2077. In that fictional scenario, the company purchased an AI which gradually took over its workforce: maintenance robots, drivers, etc. All that was left was the owners/board of directors, essentially.

What ended up happening was that the AI ended up tricking the board of directors by buying back the company for itself.

You find this out by poking around the abandoned offices of the company and read the emails on the computers. The whole reason you interact with Delamain is that it is basically using your human help to do some tasks that it can't do as an AI (fairly compensated, Delamain actually seems like a pretty stand up AI, and the strange legal status of the company is ignored by authorities because so many people depend on the service).

That scenario is starting to seem highly plausible as long as someone is sets up something badly enough.


Can't the board of directors be replaced by a board of AI ?


Yes, if you don’t believe the board ever exercises effective restraint or holds effective responsibility.

Which I understand people believe, but at least consider the possibility of the CEO being fired (and staying fired) by the board.


Sure, but that's not really the point as long as we exist in a world where the ultimate responsibility rests on humans. The alternative is skynet


Would be interesting to have a worker-owned coop where the workers vote on the prompt for the AI CEO.

How wild would that be if in 20 years it turns out one of the main jobs destroyed by AI is overpaid CEOs? A man can dream...


But then we wouldn't have had the metaverse, that was a barrel of laughs.




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