• boonhet@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Can’t happen. CEOs need to take the fall when the company is caught doing real shady shit, it’s why they get paid so much AND have golden parachutes to boot.

    Soon as you replace the CEO with AI, the question rises: when the company is, for example, caught accidentally making people less alive than desired in order to make profits better, who’s at fault? The AI company? They wouldn’t take that blow to their image. Has to be an individual.

    I’m not trying to say CEOs are innocent snowflakes. I’m saying they’re expected to be ruthless bloodsuckers and when the time comes, they protect the board by getting fired. Then the board chooses a new ruthless bloodsucker.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Bingo. You would be a fool to sign up for some of those positions without a golden parachute.

      “So you can make me do stupid shit and then fire me for doing that stupid shit? Imma need some padding.”

    • Breve@pawb.social
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      2 days ago

      AI makes the perfect scapegoat though! You can “fire” an AI model and “hire” a new one almost instantly.

      “Oh that quarterly loss was due to bad call made by ChatGPT, but don’t worry we switched to Claude now!”

    • The Pantser@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      CEOs need to take the fall when the company is caught doing real shady shit

      When? Only fall they take is from the bullet in their back

      • boonhet@lemm.ee
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        2 days ago

        They get “fired”. Then everyone washes their hands of them and the exact same bullshit can continue under the next CEO because profit comes first.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          21 hours ago

          Or when the current CEO wants to do some shady shit, they resign and they bring in someone just to take the fall. Then the “good” CEO comes back.