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I’m no expert in business or management, but I feel like leadership plays a very “human” role? As in, you need to wheel-and-deal favours, get people excited, in
by graypegg 3y ago
I’m no expert in business or management, but I feel like leadership plays a very “human” role? As in, you need to wheel-and-deal favours, get people excited, inspire confidence etc. If someone was going to make me chat with a chat bot to hash out some buy-out, or some big pitch for something, I’m not taking them seriously. At least a human has the smoke screen of “friendly person”, a LLM (even if read by a human) is just too on the nose as “we’ve automated removing money from you”.
Also who do you call out when they make a bad decision? When people want blood, they want the person they’re attacking to bleed.
- topaz0 3y agoRight. The point is that capitalism is the economic system built to optimally remove money from you and redistribute it to owners. So sure the idea wouldn't work because it would be making the game explicit (as you say, "too on the nose"), rather than hiding it behind mythology. Another point of the article is that the AI hype is also all about playing this game (disciplining workers so that their labor can be more effectively exploited), and not anything about the actual labor that people do.
- graypegg 3y agoShould make it clear, I’m not saying being a (human) CEO is some altruistic career. Capitalism will burn us all to the ground. But AI CEO is so blatantly “saying the quiet part out loud” that it’s just comically maligned.