OpenAI’s new boss claims “majority” of CEO tasks can be automated

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Shannon Liao, Shear took to social media late last week to comment on a recent article that said “CEOs are hugely expensive, why not automate them?”.“Unironically.

Most of the CEO job (and the majority of most executive jobs) are very automatable,” he wrote. “There are of course the occasional key decisions you can’t replace.

Of course that means you can’t really truly ‘replace’ the CEO, but I think we will see management get widely automated, leading to flatter and more dynamic organizations,” he continued.“Humans with AI assistance will continue to lead companies, but they’ll have a fanout of 40 instead of 10,” he wrote, adding that he’d automate “communication, problem and opportunity detection, talent identification, constructive feedback.“I think a 4x speedup is definitely possible,” he said.Of course that means you can’t really truly “replace” the CEO, but I think we will see management get widely automated, leading to flatter and more dynamic organizations.— Emmett Shear (@eshear) November 16, 2023Days later, Shear was appointed as interim CEO at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and advanced image generation model DALL-E 2, following the sudden removal of Sam Altman on Friday (November 17).“I took this job because I believe that OpenAI is one of the most important companies currently in existence,” said Shear who called the role “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity”.