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AITADestroyer t1_j15f7xe wrote

Reply to comment by Shelfrock77 in How hard would it be for an AI to do the work of a CEO? by SeaBearsFoam

I laugh my ass off every time I see someone say something like this. I saw a post awhile ago where someone said, in a completely serious way, that all executives do is look at spreadsheets. Like, dude, the CEO does a lot, and just because it's often not understood by the worker bees doesn't mean it doesn't have value or that it's easy.

It's not just putting the right people in the right places, although that is a huge part of the job. It's about strategic planning, allocation of resources, aligning tactics to the strategy, process improvement, and dealing with stakeholders and other interested parties. To put it another way, the CEO can do the custodian's job, but the custodian can't do the CEOs job.

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ProShortKingAction t1_j15yur0 wrote

Sounds like a bunch of stuff an AI would do better than most of the idiots who lucked into being CEOs

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AITADestroyer t1_j16nfpw wrote

Yeah, it sounds that way but you haven't seen a lot of robot CEOs yet. That's because unlike a lot of the redundant and/or menial tasks that are getting automated today what senior executives do still can't be done by AI. Yet. That's coming too, but it's nowhere near as easy to automate high level decision making as it is some repetitive task.

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175ParkAvenue t1_j17yipt wrote

Yep. AI CEOs are AGI complete which means that we are already in a full blown intelligence explosion when they exist.

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drekmonger t1_j172jqh wrote

> the CEO can do the custodian's job

Bullshit.

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AITADestroyer t1_j173diu wrote

Seriously?

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drekmonger t1_j174ybr wrote

They can't do the cafeteria worker's job or the plumber's job or the security guard's job either. Maybe they could learn over time, but they couldn't slot into any of those positions and be any good at them on day one. Chances are they'd be tapping out on day two. Specialized labor is effective for a reason.

Or maybe you're just really fucking snooty and you completely devalue what it is custodians do with their time. In which case, consider that a company would run way longer without a CEO than without any custodians.

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