Executives are twice as likely as rank-and-file workers to trust AI over their own judgment, per a survey out Wednesday morning.

It’s a worrying development. Leaders are hired for their experience and knowledge.

Outsourcing that to AI raises the risk of making decisions that don’t line up with reality, which then reverberate across companies and beyond.

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    Since when do we turn to executives to know what is going on? They’re as clueless as they get.

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    This means they should never use AI because they are uniquely vulnerable to AI disinformation and likely AI pyschosis.

    We need a new generation of CEO that can actually think for themselves, as bizarre as that sounds.

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          we just need a critical mass % of people willing to break the current system down, the rest can be dragged along, kicking and screaming all the way

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            Whatever works at this point, but I think the best way to move forward is to convince the major stakeholders to change by presenting a new paradigm. Something they may not necessarily love, but are willing to accept.

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                Oh, I am very aware. There are winners and losers for every policy and the important part is making it palatable for the losers.

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    leaders are hired for their experience and knowledge

    Not because they’re Machiavellian wall-climbers?

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        Ah, right, and leaders are always experienced and knowledgeable. Explain how that applies to hereditary rule or oligarchy, then.

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      Ai would certainly be cheaper, and much less emotionally unstable even given how completely fucked it is.

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      Their decades long usage of consulting companies to be a sycophantic permission giver, since they don’t want to bother making well founded good business decisions. “Don’t blame me, I hired a consult and they said to do this. If decision was the wrong one, it is the consults fault. Then we hire a consult to figure out what the last consult did wrong. Then consult to consult on the consultation of the second consult on the first consults consultation”. Please pay me millions and millions of dollar to be a consult hiring person. Oh and please a golden parachute promise also, in case I need to get fired pronto.

      If one was able to do good decisions on ones own, is confident on those decisions and able to make the arguments to back up the decision, one wouldn’t need to hire the consults to be the professional fall guys.

      edit: Oh and I don’t know is it really needed, but well it is evidence point that also exists. So they simply changed “consult” to “AI agent”

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    Well that about wraps it up for anyone who still believed in the usefulness of executives.

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    I mean, have you seen the decisions they were making without it? Probably 50:50 on C-staff

    closer to the work, you have to trust the workers decisions quite a bit more.

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    So let the AI do their jobs and redistribute their compensation to the employees

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      It is already doing their jobs. They need to be replaced with people selected from productive non-managerial roles at the workplace and replaced often.

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      In capitalism we distribute them to the shareholders. Or the AI’s shareholders. Often the same.

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    You really can get far in management with charisma, ass-kissing, boundless optimism and ability to take credit on everything. None are really markers for smart or technically minded person, or even a moral one.