CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs

Re:CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs by habosa on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @07:31PM (#48469245)

I saw someone on Xitter say "Any CEO who wants to replace jobs with AI should first have to replace their own assistant with AI" and I think that's the perfect rule. Every AI demo is some version of a personal assistant, surely AI can do that job right?

I think we'd get zero volunteers from CEOs who have assistants.

(Note: this is not meant to be an insult to human assistants! I think they do a valuable job and should not be replaced by AI either).

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Re:CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs by scubadude on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @07:52PM (#48469421)

It's the eating your own dog food.

The Open AI guy said it's now better than doctors (he said it, not me lol). He's replaced his doctor, right?

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Re:CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @11:42PM (#48471156)

What he said (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelli...) is that he doesn't want AI to replace his doctor even if it is better at diagnosis. He wants both and he expects most people to agree.

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Re:CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs by outime on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @08:55AM (#48475601)

I don't think that's a fair comparison since LLMs can't e.g. prescribe medical tests or medication. That's not something I'd be looking for anyway, but we should at least compare apples to apples.

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Re:CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs by zuzululu on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @03:55AM (#48472985)

I donno

CEOs get signals from multiple channels that cantbe accessed by AI or ordinary workers

so that alone becomes a moat

same with sales jobs theres a plane that AI cannot observe (yet)

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