The findings arent exactly surprising.
This week, Zitron wrote anop-edhumorously suggesting that companies should replace their CEOs with AI.
Executives didnt love it.
If Jeff Bezos were still CEO of Amazon, I’d argue that the e-commerce giant should replace him with an automated chatbot.Photo: lev radin (Shutterstock)
We spoke with Zitron about AI, labor, and the current foibles of corporate governance.
This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
For people who havent readyour op-ed, they should obviously just do that.
But I wanted to give you an opportunity to make your case.
So, just briefly, what argument are you making in this piece?
And why should we replace corporate executives with ChatGPT?
The argument Im mostly making is that the CEO has become an extremely vague role.
Its become one with very little accountability, very little in the sense of a definitive set of responsibilities.
That could mean anythingquite literally anything!
What does that mean?
What sort of responses have you gotten from your piece so far?
Everybody on Twitter seemed happy with it, whereas people on LinkedIn were split 50-50.
(And its always guys, btwmen seem really sensitive about this subject.)
What do you think the chances are that companies will take you up on your suggestions here?
Oh, extremely low.
Just to be abundantly clear I do not think a single goddamn company does this.
Thats why I offer an alternative in the piece, which is that we need working CEOs.
Me, personally, I do a lot of the leg work at my own business.
I would say I do more than my fair share.
But, also, why would you work for me if I didnt?
Thats what Ive never understood about these CEOs that dont work.
An editor who just sits there and makes calls?
Or an executive editor?
Thats what my Insider piece was about, basically.
Executives seem disconnected from work-product.
Its a fundamental issue.
Generative AI is hilarious because it has the appearance of intelligence without actually having any.
Its the perfect kind of McKinsey-level consultant; it just regurgitates content based on a certain subset of data.
It does not bring life experience to what it does.
It doesnt create anything new.
Its not learning or thinking.
This relates back to what we were talking about earlier.
They dont know whats going on inside the machine.
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