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The Rise of the AI CEO

In the popular imagination, we have always thought that robots would replace “physical labor.” That perhaps our dutiful Asimovian robots would politely come after the “knowledge workers” last. After all, surely all those boxes in the warehouse would slow their advance. Tucker them out. Drain their batteries. We always knew they would come for us, but we didn't think it would be today. We thought it would be later, like well after we had paid off our student loans or maybe even retired. You know, give the college grads a bit of a headstart since so many of us had spawned these job-taking machines. They owed us that.

But right now anyway, it’s just cheaper to pay an Amazon warehouse worker $19 per hour than it is to build their titanium replacements. So Silicon Valley has aimed its AI sites directly at the folks on LinkedIn. Turns out that jobs that are closer to the body (manual labor, construction, skilled nursing, cooking, etc.) are too hard/expensive to automate completely—some forms of human touch too idiosyncratic to replicate. Which means nowadays "working with your hands" is a form of job security.
Working with your mind, not so much.

Since ChatGPT cannonballed into the public consciousness, we are all wide-awake panicked by the fact that Machine Learning will learn our jobs, and do so faster and maybe even better and cheaper than we ever thought possible. Just ask ChatGPT for yourself if it will take your job. Go now. Go ask it. It will say maybe not today or even tomorrow, but when pressed, it will admit that sooner or later AI will replace you. ChatGPT will also say nice, reassuring things to you; it will craft warm and reassuring sentences like how current AI “can’t be as creative as humans blah, blah, blah,” but we all know a con job when we hear it—even an artificially intelligent one. In fact, it’s unnerving how charming and how evasive ChatGPT can be at times. Think about this: AI models are as dumb as they ever will be in our lifetime. What we are playing with now with ChatGPT is a minimally viable product. It's a complete dunderhead compared to what is to come.

So it’s hard not to wonder who will be the first to lose their jobs with the advancement of AI.

Will it be the artists overtaken by Midjourney prompts?

Screenwriters and novelists replaced by neurologically irresistible storylines and plots? (Infinite Jest as David Foster Wallace called it).

Or will it be doctors and lawyers who will be out-diagnosed and out-litigated at blur-speed?

Spoiler alert: It will be all of us.

It’s why Elon Musk once said, "With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon." Elon, like a busted clock, is right at least twice a day, and in this case, the Tesla founder is right. But what does Elon Musk have to complain about? Surely, AI is not coming for his job. He’s a CEO! A visionary! A founder! The owner of Twitter!

Uh, yeah, now with AI maybe those particular skill sets aren’t worth what they used to be. Seriously, an AI will do all of what CEOs can do—just better, faster, cheaper. Think about this plot twist—a thought experiment if you will: What if the role of the CEO is the first job that AI devours? What if in a matter of years, AI will be able to out-invest, out-forecast, out-allocate, out-envision, out-innovate, out-strategize, out-reorganize, out-grow, out-lead, out-run any human CEO? It’s not a crazy thought. Think about the G in ChatGPT. It literally predicts and generates the next word. AIs will be able to predict outcomes, allocate resources, and envision future roadmaps better than any human CEO ever born. This will be the end of all financial mismanagement and bungling in the C-suite. AI will insure growth like no human ever could. It will delight Wall Street to no end. Stocks will soar.

After the first AI is unleashed on the CEO position and the galactic windfalls that will come from this artificial leadership this will sadly mean no human will ever hold that position ever again. I predict the profits and growth that AI CEOs will deliver will be epic and inevitable. AI CEOs will usher in a golden age of prosperity for shareholders like the world has never seen. The physics of the business universe will be forever changed.
This AI CEO future means all business complexity, growth, creativity, and vision will be managed and predicted by the machine. Soft skills like human opinions and hunches will not be necessary. The AI CEO will present plans and strategies that will be inarguable. Besides, why risk your business to the mercurial whims or the troublesome psyches of human beings like Elon Musk or even Tim Cook?

So the only problem with this AI CEO economy is that if humans no longer have jobs or the income that jobs provide, who will be buying all these hyper-efficient, cyber-delicious, ultra-profitable products that all the AI CEOs will be making, distributing, and marketing?

Last I checked, AIs don’t slam Diet Cokes, drive Teslas, need mortgage products, or crack their iPhone screens on a semi-regular basis.

But then again maybe the AIs could hire former human CEOs to do that for them.

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