Executives are twice as likely as rank-and-file workers to trust AI over their own judgment, per a survey out Wednesday morning.

It's a worrying development. Leaders are hired for their experience and knowledge.

Outsourcing that to AI raises the risk of making decisions that don't line up with reality, which then reverberate across companies and beyond.

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[–] 117 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Because executives are dumb as fuck

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  • [–] 85 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    leaders are hired for their experience and knowledge

    Not because they’re Machiavellian wall-climbers?

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  • [–] 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Is there any more evidence needed to show that Managers do not deserve the outrageous pay they've been getting?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 weeks ago*

    Their decades long usage of consulting companies to be a sycophantic permission giver, since they don't want to bother making well founded good business decisions. "Don't blame me, I hired a consult and they said to do this. If decision was the wrong one, it is the consults fault. Then we hire a consult to figure out what the last consult did wrong. Then consult to consult on the consultation of the second consult on the first consults consultation". Please pay me millions and millions of dollar to be a consult hiring person. Oh and please a golden parachute promise also, in case I need to get fired pronto.

    If one was able to do good decisions on ones own, is confident on those decisions and able to make the arguments to back up the decision, one wouldn't need to hire the consults to be the professional fall guys.

    edit: Oh and I don't know is it really needed, but well it is evidence point that also exists. So they simply changed "consult" to "AI agent"

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  • [–] 32 points 2 weeks ago

    Well that about wraps it up for anyone who still believed in the usefulness of executives.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Coincidentally, rank-and-file workers are also twice as likely to trust AI over their executives’ judgement.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 weeks ago

    You really can get far in management with charisma, ass-kissing, boundless optimism and ability to take credit on everything. None are really markers for smart or technically minded person, or even a moral one.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    In other words... AI has reached a point allegedly that can now replace executives. So why have them?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago

    Leaders are hired for their experience and knowledge.

    [citation needed]

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  • [–] 29 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    So let the AI do their jobs and redistribute their compensation to the employees

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    Wouldn't this be some sign of AI psychosis?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

    This means they should never use AI because they are uniquely vulnerable to AI disinformation and likely AI pyschosis.

    We need a new generation of CEO that can actually think for themselves, as bizarre as that sounds.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    We need to move away from CEOs and capitalism.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Agreed, but we need to come up with a better system and convince people to switch.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    we just need a critical mass % of people willing to break the current system down, the rest can be dragged along, kicking and screaming all the way

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Whatever works at this point, but I think the best way to move forward is to convince the major stakeholders to change by presenting a new paradigm. Something they may not necessarily love, but are willing to accept.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago

    Guys this is it, the window we’ve been waiting for! All we need to do is inject pro union pro consumer tax paying sentiment into ai and we’re golden!! Like when they hijacked Rick santonrum’s name in google search…we did it!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago

    Honestly? Probably for the better on that one.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    So if it’s better at thinking than they are it renders them redundant

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Makes perfect sense

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    I mean, have you seen the decisions they were making without it? Probably 50:50 on C-staff

    closer to the work, you have to trust the workers decisions quite a bit more.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    That's really sad

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Bullshit generators do a better job of generating bullshit than the whole “professional class” created to generate bullshit. Most MBAs are just that.

    Low to average academic achievers that decide to pursue careers where they won’t have to work too hard or think too hard… The best ones are indeed smart, but mostly at bullshitting other bullshitters.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Since when do we turn to executives to know what is going on? They’re as clueless as they get.

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