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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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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You're mixing up corporate personhood and the CEO's own personhood. He isn't the corporation. Ultimately, he's just an employee. There's no good reason for the board of directors to pay him if a machine can do a better job while costing less. I'm not sure why you might think that wouldn't happen.

[–] Yezzey@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No but the corporation is the person, CEO handing it to AI which then becomes a person.

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[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's what republicans need, yes

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Non-founder CEO's typically get brought in to use their connections to improve the company of is an internal promotion to signify the new direction of the company. They also provide a single throat to choke when things go wrong.

What will be more likely to happen is that CEO's will use AI to vibe manage their companies and use the AI output as justification. We don't have enough data to tell if AI helps the best or worst CEO's.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was utilizing AI technology to mass murder people for shareholder profit

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 10 months ago

And the AI being bad at its job was a feature.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

that's already broadly discussed . there's tons of articles like this one. just use your favorite search engine for "ceos replaced by ai",

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 10 months ago

Things get real crazy when the shareholders are replaced by AI.

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