Or you could fire your boss and form a worker cooperative run on consensus based decision making. Worker cooperatives succeed more than “traditional” businesses and have higher pay for their workers^1, despite being at a systemic disadvantage for seed capital. You don’t need an ai to boss you around, you and your coworkers can make collective decisions without any boss to speak of.
AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You
Submitted 14 hours ago by chobeat@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
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scott@lemmy.org 14 hours ago
snekerpimp@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Ok I’ve had it. After decades I’m finally going to watch this.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
I’ve often thought that worker cooperative call centres should be a thing. The people who manage call centres barely understand the contract because inevitably they’re higher management from outside of the company, since no one on the phones could possibly be management material.
It would probably make quite a lot of money because one of the biggest complaints that companies have about their third party call centres is inefficiencies. Even if the bosses wanted to fix the inefficiencies they can’t because they don’t understand the contract at a base enough level. In a workers cooperative that wouldn’t be an issue since the workers would understand the contract.
Unfortunately it probably would face the issue that all new starts in the industry make, in that most businesses are locked into multi-year contracts with their call centre providers and can’t just swap to a new provider whenever they want. So you’d have to time its startup very precisely as a big company came to the end of its contract, or you’d probably have to get some clients on board before you even started.
nullroot@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Some of those inefficiencies are by design though, especially for any department that might pay out to the customer for the company’s mistakes. You would make a well reviewed call center that big companies don’t want to hire because they’ll actually do the job.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
This is a very good idea. I worked call centers in the US when I was younger and they all suffered from terrible, abusive management.
scott@lemmy.org 9 hours ago
Why don’t you start it? I have experience in cooperative development and could help provide some guidance on getting started (for free of course; DM me if you like)
Nephalis@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
Are there any articles about examples? I only know about aftermath.site but ha e no clue if it is sccessful or not.
skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Find any video on YouTube about Mondragon in Spain. It’s like the 9th largest organization in Spain, highly successful in other words. Richard Wolff gave a ‘Talk at Google’ years ago that is about Mondragon. There is also some academic work that shows that worker coops are more resilient during recessions and the global financial crisis.
nouben@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
French glass maker Duralex saved all jobs with workers coop: thebetter.news/duralex-cooperative/
mgnome@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Farmers in New Zealand are organized into cooperative, probably the biggest and most successful cooperative there is, and there's almost zero subsidizing from state for them.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Here’s a list of a few coops: canadianworker.coop/join/members/
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 9 hours ago
Most people work for terrible bosses, but AI in its current state would only be better than a terrible boss honestly. A good boss isnt some asshole bossing people around. A good boss is someone who knows how to lead people and get the most out of each constituent part of the team, while also helping each person theyre leading be the best they can be. A good boss is someone who has empathy, but can also be firm when appropriate, and knows how to read people well. A good boss is someone who can successfully plan work in such a way that it is most successful while simultaneously putting the least strain on each member of the team as is possible.
The problem with bosses isnt the concept of bosses. The problem is that there are 10x as many managerial roles as there are people competent and selfless enough to actually do the shit in the previous paragraph. Leadership is a position of service, not self servitude, but 9/10 people use leadership in self interest and, unsurprisingly, fail in the end. They want the check and they want to be the boss so they can put work on others. A truly successful boss can never be someone like that, because no one respects working for someone who asks them to do work that they themselves would never do (unless talking about highly specialized work where few are competent).
No one wants to work the weekend for a manager who always takes it off. Nobody wants to know that they know more about how to do their job than their boss does. All of that kind of stuff eats away at people until they go work for someone else.
I think an AI boss would obviously be better than a bad boss. But it cant replace working for someone that you highly respect and that helps you be the best you can be, which is something that often motivates people to continue working in the same job. AI would be such a neutral force that it couldnt really do that part of the job. And obviously it cant read people
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
I do wonder about just using an ai ceo as a sock puppet to seem more inviting to a ceo heavy world would be worth it, like they get really popular you could replace the model with new that takes notes of everything then relays it back to a co op board
makyo@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It’s my fervent prayer that AI ends up enabling smaller teams of enthusiastic individuals to actually be able to compete against megalithic corpos. I can absolutely imagine an AI contributing high level guidance to such a team for them to consider and ideate/iterate on before they adapt. It actually seems to me like one of the more plausible activities for an AI agent.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I actually think an AI would do a better job at running corporations than a human would. Even if it’s just an LLM.
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Huh I read a dystopian short story about AI micro-managing workers, constantly telling them what to do next to optimize productivity. It ends with near “perfect” dystopian wealth concentration. While in another part of the world they used AI to create a utopia.
Oh it was called Manna by Marshall Brain
The gradual takeover of jobs by AI (starting with fast food), The warehousing of the unemployed in state-controlled facilities, A techno-utopian alternative (Australia) where AI liberates rather than enslaves.
voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
It would be the largest cost cutting measure, but the ruling class won’t allow it.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Yes. If they did allow it, who would hire their nephew, then?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The fucking irony.
you_are_it@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago
Takes leverage away, it is throwing such a tasty challenge society vice, suck that passive aggressive back stabbing work culture!
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Dude looks like the Delamain ai.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 hours ago
Oh man… I don’t wanna have to chase down all his split personalities 😩
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That took so long to find a couple of them.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
I think the AI might have too much empathy for the role.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
It might even make smarter decisions. The last few companies I worked for had total morons for CEOs, but they sure maximized short-term profit (by burning the company down).
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
I suspect an AI CEO would be more rational and science driven, instead of believing in some ideology that says workers have to feel desperate to be most productive or something. It’s possible they’d look at science and then raise the minimum vacation time so people are more productive and generate more profit.
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
This is what I told my bosses when AI first showed up and they called a meeting to discussed how to leverage it.
It’s not going to replace me, it’s going to replace you.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Plot twist: board replaces the whole exec layer with CEO AI, keeps the difference, gives nothing to the employees.
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
When manual workers were replaced by robots, they were told to “retrain and reskill” to get new jobs.
Perhaps these CEO’s can retrain to be plumbers, there’s good money there.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
This is how we get Dalamain.
pticrix@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Delamain has shown me more loyalty and care than 99% of NC. I’m on board.
Alaik@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
I mean honestly… delamain was honest. Which absolutely was better than 99% of night city. You get shot? Yeah he won’t take you to the hospital if his client paid him to take you to location z, but you knew that before getting in.
You get the creds for the primo package yourself though? You got it made choom.
atlien51@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
LOUDER FOR THE
PEOPLECEO’s IN THE BACK!JustJack23@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
Does it use AI to generate quotes?
Renat@szmer.info 11 hours ago
It uses predefined quotes. I got 2 times same quote about thinking outside box.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I for one welcome our new robot overlord.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago
That whole website is very good.
Oilwell.app
Angelusz@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
They use the wrong color though, purple is good. They should be Red.
Almacca@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
AI, even in it’s current state, is probably overkill to replace a CEO.