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CEOs could easily be replaced with AI, experts argue


Impartial, data driven AI models could be an appealing replacement for biased , egotistical CEOs — and cheaper, too.

"Some people like the social aspects of having a human boss," Phoebe Moore, professor of management and the futures of work at the University of Essex Business School, told The New York Times. The idea of subbing bosses for bots is the flipside to all those fears about AI causing widespread job destruction, which often focus on the fact — quite justifiably — that it'll be regular grunts being shown the door in favor of intelligent automation. An impartial thinking machine could conceivably process way more data and make the most logical decision, free of personal biases, unwieldy egos, and perhaps moral inhibitions.

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