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Education-Sea t1_jczujco wrote

In this case, with a non-human CEO that does not absorb profits, the workers in general would earn much more money...

Interesting...

EDIT: Well, my comment caused quite a controversy. That's all right. It is poorly formulated anyway, and half-serious. I do however, belive the automation of bosses will help the workers. But, we will need to abandon the modern company-form entirely.

We need Cybersyn.

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leywesk t1_jd0j07n wrote

Serious? do you really think that a company that hires an AI as CEO to save costs, will increase the salary of an employee??

That was the best joke I've seen today.

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TheDividendReport t1_jd0z93m wrote

The cynic in me immediately agrees but thinking about this more begs the question: What is really being said here? That there are millions of dollars worth of money to be had in eliminating overpaid CEOs with AI.

The more AI is trusted to return profit, the more studies that have been shown to improve productivity by using 4 day work weeks or similar will be used by a hyper efficient AI to grow.

What if such an AI determines that having more healthy consumers is better to increase quarterly profits and begins lobbying for social safety nets, identifying a long term benefit for short term investment?

Far fetched, maybe. But an interesting line of thinking.

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duboispourlhiver t1_jd2dk07 wrote

Coming next : AIs actually explaining humans how to be happy through being gentle, sharing and loving, because their superior intelligence reached that conclusion.

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Education-Sea t1_jd6kpmg wrote

See my edit friend. I do understand your POV.

We need Cybersyn.

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Hotchillipeppa t1_jd0s5ff wrote

Yes im sure the shareholders will put all the profits that would go to the ceo back into the workers, surely.

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AllCommiesRFascists t1_jd18x27 wrote

Shareholders like to pay the bare minimum to CEOs since their pay eats into the shareholder’s profits

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ecnecn t1_jd0stxf wrote

I have seen working contracts of CEOs changing their workplace / firm... their demands are out of touch of reality. You could pay for the development of new anti-cancer therapies and their clinical trials for what they demand behind closed doors. Best thing: Someone demanded three different luxury cars because he had to do business with people from different countries (that came to his country) and he wanted to leave a "culture specific impression" on them - in the end the supervisiory boards gave their "ok" because of his explaination. Its not like you could rent them before the meeting you had to buy them all. Literally one car for meetings with asian clients, one for meetings with european clients and one for meetings with key-account people. The chance that they actually see the car parked before a Restaurant etc. or another meeting place is not so high or important...

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Smart-Tomato-4984 t1_jd2uhoe wrote

Someone(s) human must be making the decisions, because sometimes the chat-bot is going to say dumb shit that need creative interpreting and it's not going to take the initiative, if it is a LLM type AI. Someone has to prompt it with questions. LLM have not long term episodic memory either.

If they don't pay anyone ridiculous amounts of money, that's awesome.

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ThrowRA_overcoming t1_jd1toiq wrote

Unlikely. People will earn based on their market value, along with some other factors like negotiation skills, etc. Profits would veyr likely get passed to shareholders.

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BlessedBobo t1_jd246uq wrote

this is not how it works, the workers in general would not see a penny.

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scarlettforever t1_jd2pmcw wrote

>In this case, with a non-human CEO that does not absorb profits, the workers in general would earn much more money...

COUGH communism COUGH

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