Maybe AI Should Replace the CEOs

Here’s a cool little experiment that the people at The Hustle did: they used AI to replace the CEOs at several companies and compared what AI would do to what they actually did.

Same company. Same data. Same market conditions.

It’s a fun read. Spoiler alert: some of the decisions are the same, some are different.

AI is really good at patterns. It’s good at bounded problems. It’s good at history. 

Part of being a CEO is all those things.

However, part of being a CEO is also leadership. Leadership isn’t just making decisions given all the facts. Leadership is about having a vision for the future.

AI has no vision for the future. Just incentives.

If you’re a CEO, you should be using AI.

But also, you should be asking, “What kind of company do we want to be?”