Considering that C-suite executives are usually fantastically expensive, they’d be a logical position to automate (assuming AI worked like suits think it does). For some veeeery strange reason no board of directors has suggested replacing themselves with AIs
Honestly 100% unemployed becuase we have a good universal income system or something would be great. But sadly it looks like we’re in a different timeline :(
Maybe the central problem is racing to put other people out of work period, regardless of who they are. Maybe putting people out of work is not a net benefit for society, it’s actually negative in the long run, and only truly a benefit for shareholders. They don’t need any more of those at the expense of the working class.
I’ll believe AI can replace engineers when I see NVIDIA firing them. But like the graphic says, the manager’s job seems a lot easier to replace instead.
And to be fair, like always, good marketing is genius stuff.
But it also feels rare. I suspect precisely because C-suite and upper management love to mess with it, so the rote marketing approach gets normalized, which in turn drives all the decent marketing people away.
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CEO: why not both?
Shareholders: why not all three?
Considering that C-suite executives are usually fantastically expensive, they’d be a logical position to automate (assuming AI worked like suits think it does). For some veeeery strange reason no board of directors has suggested replacing themselves with AIs
It’d be super easy to replace Sam Altman with a bot that spits out keywords known to increase OpenAI shares.
Waitaminute… Sam alt-man?
I know, right? It’s like he’s an incredibly shitty sci-fi villain.
Sounds like they’re not prioritizing the shareholders interests! Last I heard, that’s a fireable offense!
It’s almost like the rules don’t apply to the moneyed class
Hedge fund manager: hold my beer.
*Several steps later*
Narrator: And that, folks, is how we got the Utopia we live in, by replacing all the work with AI, and letting people enjoy their lives
Haha. No. Nothing so hopeful. The rich people will get even richer and everyone that used to be working class and middle class die a slow death.
Now I wander what would happen if only rich people would survive and I’m sure somebody has already written an sf book about that
Like the planet solaria: https://fandom.adminforge.de/asimov/wiki/Solaria
Yeah. That’s (arguably) the background scenario to Asimov’s book “The Naked Sun” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun
Edit: Ooh, Django already gave a cooler link to the same: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/10729278
Took me a while to track it down, but I think this is the book to which you were referring.
https://angryflower.com/348.html
I make no cleans about the stances of this artist; I just saw this strip years ago.
Robots sure are long overdue
Humanity: yes, let’s replace all of the above. 100% unemployment rate is the only way to go.
Honestly 100% unemployed becuase we have a good universal income system or something would be great. But sadly it looks like we’re in a different timeline :(
CEO is the first role to go!
Only one of them gets to make the decision to fire the other
Maybe the central problem is racing to put other people out of work period, regardless of who they are. Maybe putting people out of work is not a net benefit for society, it’s actually negative in the long run, and only truly a benefit for shareholders. They don’t need any more of those at the expense of the working class.
It should be a net benefit for society. Any system in which it isn’t is a very flawed system. Like most of the world right now.
Ideally, nobody should have to work.
The problem is that labor-saving technology is never permitted to save labor. We make those displaced laborers go do other shit.
Owners: with AI we can finally get rid of everyone
given that LLMs and gen AIs are great at talking bullshit and creating presentations, one is a more realistic expectation than the other
I’ll believe AI can replace engineers when I see NVIDIA firing them. But like the graphic says, the manager’s job seems a lot easier to replace instead.
Could probably replace managers with AI, but being trained on most managers would mean it would be equally bad at its job.
I think the most likely is for the artists jobs to go away as art doesn’t have to be exact, but code does.
It’s the marketing department that should really be worried.
Like the C level isn’t the marketing department
And to be fair, like always, good marketing is genius stuff.
But it also feels rare. I suspect precisely because C-suite and upper management love to mess with it, so the rote marketing approach gets normalized, which in turn drives all the decent marketing people away.
Managers might not like people but they don’t want to get rid of them. There’s no cheap thrill from micromanaging an AI.
100,000% this - money or even utility seems to not be everything, compared to feeling self-importance
Is a CEO a manager?
Depends on the size of the company.
Yes. In big established companies they are managing managers.
In smaller companies, no
In bigger company’s C levels manage VPs who manage directors who manage managers
It’s management alll the way down
Plus it’s harder to pass the buck and blame an AI for your screw ups. It would be perceived, as the kids say, as a skills issue.
If we fire all developers and allow AIs to program themselves, the AIs are going to commit virtual seppuku after a few days.
Can we build an AI manager that just keeps asking for different shades of red?
Yes. And that’s our best case scenario. Worst case is a wildly incompetent, but still effective form of SkyNet.