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Will CEOs eventually have to replace themselves with AI to please shareholders? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by 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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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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.

Perhaps we could have it sell Paperclips. With the sole goal of selling as many paperclips as possible.

Surely, selling something as innocuous as paperclips could never go wrong.

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