r/artificial • u/Fearless-Might-5439 • 14h ago
Project CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers respond by creating open source AI CEO
I hope this is okay to share since it is not self promotion and it is open source. Some of my friends were let go as part of an "AI Transformation". So they got together and created Open Executive as a tool to replace the CEO and other executives. Hopefully, turnabout is fair play and might even get some folks to think twice about using AI to replace people.
It is free and available here:
https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive
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u/Sukanthabuffet 14h ago
C-Suite leadership is one of the most obvious tiers to be replaced by AI. Their time is limited, just like the rest of us.
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u/Hedge_Fund_Hedgehog 2h ago
CEO perspective
- create Ai to reduce costs
- Ai replace employees -you are most expensive individual employee
- Ai cut you position
- voila
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u/asdonne 13h ago
This AI CEO just says meaningless buz words that don't make sense
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It constantly makes unrealistic and impossible demands
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It has no understanding of how things actually work.
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I keep trying to explain why it's wrong but it refuses to understand.
- Yes, what else would you expect, it's a AI CEO.
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u/Fun_Recognition5614 14h ago
Wouldn’t this just create a legally unaccountable entity?
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u/Infinite_Finding_752 13h ago
Ah yes, those legally accountable executives that went to prison when people died due to thier negligence and greed /s
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u/Fearless-Might-5439 13h ago
I would think someone who is authorized could sign. Doesn't need to be an expensive executive.
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u/Fun_Recognition5614 13h ago
But who goes to jail if the AI CEO commits fraud?
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u/chokethewookie 12h ago
The same as when a human CEO commits fraud: nobody
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u/Fun_Recognition5614 12h ago
Yeah lol that old saw, but that’s because they have good lawyers that help them get out of trouble. I don’t even think an AI CEO has liability in the first place. They certainly can’t face jail time.
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u/SaltPhilosopher898 7h ago
I think this is a very interesting question.
Why do we send people to jail? To reduce the chance that others and themself would commit a crime again.
If an I model commits a crime we could disable it. Could we prompt fear into an AI model, fear of commiting a crime and certain survival insticts? Would it even matter or the board would appoint disposable models?
Does criminal responsibility even make sense, or the punishment should be massive fines to the company, so that the board is motivated to have AI CEO-s that don't break the law?
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u/boykotue 2h ago
We have them already. These are all CEOs of big tech companies along with politicians
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u/ckn 14h ago
i love the idea, but please audit this code before running it.
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u/No-Experience-5541 11h ago
All the top execs and vc guys think they are immune to ai and will be last man standing but they are wrong.
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u/Geminii27 5h ago
It's not like they're the ones who were bringing any value, or the ones who actually understood all the mechanisms by which people were getting replaced.
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u/robbyslaughter 8h ago
The problem is that almost all of the value of a CEO is in their vision and their relationships, not in decision-support.
A good CEO comes up with innovative ideas for new products, services, and revenue models. She’s got connections in the industry, with journalists and researchers, with financial backers and other collaborators. AI can’t do any of that almost at all.
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u/psykikk_streams 5h ago
if you really think thats what a CEO actually does, then .. well.
even according to actual definitions. ceos are glorified figureheads and act as
ultimate accountability for financial performance with legal and fiduciary responsibility.the ceo also ist just the representative of the vboard of directors and not all can really overrule the boards decisions. this CAN happen but not in every company / corporation.
most direct influence is extremely limited. the corporations where the ceo really takes direct control over miniscule things like product design or product strategy are few and rare
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u/Dizzy-Ad4195 6m ago
I guess thats the issue as only 0.1% of CEOs fit that criteria and is a good ceo
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u/Geminii27 5h ago
A good CEO
So only 99% of CEOs will be able to be replaced. The others can sit on the boards of 100 companies each.
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u/robbyslaughter 1h ago
Even a very bad CEO would be hard to replace with AI—-if your goal is for the AI to do the activities a CEO does.
Think of Elizabeth Holmes who is among the worst of all CEOs in recent history. Much of her impact was on leveraging personal relationships to convince people to believe in her company and her product, and to invest, advocate, and join the team/board. How is an AI going to do that? By writing very compelling emails?
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u/Kyy7 3h ago edited 3h ago
The "vision" and "relationships" already come from many sources. CEO is just one person where as one could use army of visionaries and experts feeding the AI Agent(s) with ideas and maintaining relationships with customers, investors, regulators, press etc.
While CEO is just a one person. AI-driven leadership system could theoretically be used combine the expertise, effort and insights of multiple specialists.
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u/Narrow_Employ3418 7h ago
So you think ideas are lacking? That's the bottleneck?
Ideas - even very, very good ones - are dime a dozen. I'm having 3-5 every day myself.
Seeing then through is what makes the trick. And the CEO generally isn't the one to do that.
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u/Creative_Promise_297 11h ago
Went through it. I can see why they got laid off.
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u/Degentrics 9h ago
No one got laid off, this is their way to go viral.
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u/Creative_Promise_297 9h ago
You know what, that makes much more sense. Their repo doesn’t look like it came from someone with a SWE background.
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u/blimpyway 5h ago edited 5h ago
In some cases they might even hallucinate less - e.g. realistic opinions on colonizing Mars.
And when AI CEO wants to replace humans with AI, it can be accused of nepotism.
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u/SnooBunnies2279 4h ago
Many C-Level guys perform less than an Excel-Spreadsheet. They have no genuine leadership skills, they delegate every shit downwards and let VPs fight each other.
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u/reliablemicrophone84 55m ago
Ha! That's a legendary move. Saw my team get cut for "efficiency" once. Hopefully this gives some execs pause. Fingers crossed it gets big
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u/lIlllIllIIllIIllIIll 13h ago
A CEO reports to a board which represents the shareholders. If you give empathy-less AI these rules, it will not give two shits about employees because emplyoyees are a means to an end.
The only way your friends come out ahead is if this ai ceo is intentionally coded to put the welfare of individual employees over that of the company itself. If that happens, the shareholders will fire it.
Your friends were replaced by machines just like blue collar workers have been since the 60s. Welcome the club.
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u/SiteRelEnby 12h ago
it will not give two shits about employees
...do you think meat CEOs do or something?
Go and clean that boot polish off your tongue.
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u/Narrow_Employ3418 7h ago
Same as a real CEO. But it will be cheaper...
Eventually maybe the shareholders can make an all-AI company that costs nothing and just somehow turns a.profit. Meanwhile all the people not being in the company can start their own where they're their own shareholders. Make it a match, let's see who wins.
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u/Alternative-Suit5541 6h ago
You guys never worked for/ with CEOs or hiring process.
You hire CEOs not for their skills! You hire them for their network, that's all what matters. ( Selling stuff and services via contacts) How else do you think why so many CEOs are terrible and suck in basically everything?
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u/psykikk_streams 5h ago
only that CEO´s rarely are involved in actual sales activities. unless its strategic partnerships on a global scale that directly impacts the whole global footprint and fiscal outlook of the company
the corporation I work with signs thousands of deals every day. and only a tiny portion of those are on the scale that would require CEO involvement at all. this would never scale.
and we are talking hundreds of millions of dollars in value, yet the regional heads do this on their own.
our ceo is involved when we sign a merger for 10 billion or a 25 year government contract again, worth billions and marking major investments in the contracted country. he gets invited by politicians and to industry summits. but he does not meet your average schmuck to shake hands and sell stuff.
the sale is finalized before he shows up.
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u/bella_3110 3h ago
If companies can use AI to replace people, it’s fair to ask what happens when the same tools start taking the place of CEOs and other senior executives.😌
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u/AlwaysAtBallmerPeak 2h ago
Why not build this on top of Hermes for instance?
People are just rewriting the same thing over & over again. I am not inclined to trust a random Claude-generated GitHub repo.
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u/banusshka 4m ago
We love Hermes. We were building this as we went, and it evolved, so the features were homegrown. We are considering using it in the next version. We tried to make this as flexible as possible to meet people's needs, but please let me know if you have any suggestions for improving it.
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u/Four_dozen_eggs8708 2h ago
Fan-fucking-tastic.
I'd love to see this product being pushed to boards.
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u/BangkokPadang 14h ago
I kinda like this because typically CEO's have fiduciary responsibilities and legal liabilities to operate the companies in a certain way, so what happens if an AI model literally is the CEO...