> C-suite is as likely to be automated as engineers.

Nah. C-suite has (a) money and (b) legal and fiscal obligation. You literally need a human being certain legal operations, like incorporation, salary, and lawsuits.

You need *a* human. And that human will be delegated to clicking approve on AI decisions.

I think a lot of people thought that every step of the way with the progress of AI or automation in general. Unless that C-suite is all shareholders with majority or near majority control of a company, I would think the passive shareholders (in a public or private company) would want the savings in cutting all of those high salaries to zero for a likely superior outcome with AI.

I wouldn't count on lawyers being deemed necessary by the law for as many actions as they have been so far.

> would want the savings in cutting all of those high salaries to zero for a likely superior outcome with AI.

Maybe. Or maybe the C-suite salary will be cut to $50K/yr. That would make them marginally more expensive than AI, but for that price the shareholders get an extra layer of insulation should things go awry (and they won't be held personally responsible for corporate malfeasance).

> I wouldn't count on lawyers being deemed necessary by the law for as many actions as they have been so far.

Maybe, but that's pretty far down the road and would require restructuring the whole jurisprudence system.

Who is C-suite going to blame for fuck ups and failures if the company is just a suit and a laptop?

Middle management should be nervous. Plenty of people whose job it is to ask "is it done yet? when can I have it?!" -- they could be replaced today with better tooling and processes.

No. The C-Suite is safe, very safe. I participated in an AI survey of what is the information that a C-Suite operates upon, and it is largely unwritten information, it is a suspicion and manipulation game with all the other c-suite players, and the middle managers beneath them as the battle ground. There are Peter Principled members that maintain their positions by executing the corporations legally grey dirty work, and then there are serious 100x non-engineers that can launch $100M initiatives in short notice, with successful experience doing so to create divisions and more.

I know the software engineering world like to think the C-Suite are disposable, but that is only because you really have no idea what they really do.