This article fundamentally misunderstands what makes a great CEO actually really valuable. It’s not the simple optimizations fed to them by consultants that makes them necessary and not able to be replaced by AI.
Great CEOs are leaders of people. People cannot be led by AI. AI cannot go to dinner with an important partner or make their leadership team feel valued.
It is these uniquely human things that make a great CEO great. If all they do is plug in formulas, which I think is a gross oversimplification of the complexities of being a modern CEO, then they should be replaced by AI. But that will not happen anytime soon.
This article fundamentally misunderstands what makes a great CEO actually really valuable. It’s not the simple optimizations fed to them by consultants that makes them necessary and not able to be replaced by AI.
Great CEOs are leaders of people. People cannot be led by AI. AI cannot go to dinner with an important partner or make their leadership team feel valued.
It is these uniquely human things that make a great CEO great. If all they do is plug in formulas, which I think is a gross oversimplification of the complexities of being a modern CEO, then they should be replaced by AI. But that will not happen anytime soon.