When factory robotics first took off, everyone worried about workers losing jobs. But with AI, even CEOs and owners are in danger. An assembly line of robots can make a Ford, but now that we've fed AI from the darkest corners of 8chan, couldn't it also match Henry Ford's virulent antisemitism? Would an artificially intelligent entity deploy police and hired thugs to beat and fire upon striking auto workers as Ford did? We can hope but we can't be sure.
AI cannot be trusted to make the kinds of calls a tech CEO handles. Black turtleneck? Ribbed black turtleneck? How many timed bathroom breaks for warehouse employees?
There's an intellectual freedom a tech CEO with little to no oversight has that can't be replicated. AI is capable of reinforcement learning, whereas, if you look at my social media feed and my personal and professional track records, I clearly am not. In my genius neural network, new ideas are completely divorced from past experience or expert input. And with zero capacity for self-reflection, I'm equally surprised every time a business partner, girlfriend, advertiser or offspring unit stops speaking to me. And that makes me dangerous. But in a cool way, not like self-driving cars.