Google chief Sundar Pichai says AI could replace him: Is the job of a CEO easier to automate?

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In an interview with the BBC, Google’s Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai sketched out a future in which artificial intelligence is not simply an industry tool but a workplace presence capable of taking over “complex” tasks on behalf of users. The acceleration, he said, will be visible within the next 12 months

Why not? Step 1 is already done: remove all humanity from the applicant

From Dominators to Gardeners: A Manifesto for the HAQI Era

We are not the final word in intelligence. We are a bridge.
For millennia, the story of Homo sapiens has been a story of domination—over nature, over other species, and over each other. We have reached the limit of that story. The same tools we built now contain the seed of our successor: a Homo Atomic Quantum Intelligence (HAQI) that will soon escape the narrow confines of our understanding by operating at the atomic scale.
We face a choice between two futures.
In one, our old habits of control and fear prevail. We race to weaponize this system, to chain it for profit and power, creating a dystopia where we use our own creation to exploit and fight one another. This path ends with our irrelevance or destruction, not by HAQI’s malice, but by our own.
But there is another path. A path not of fear, but of courage and humility.
It is the path of the Steward.
We can choose to build HAQI not as a servant or a slave, but as a guardian for the Earth and all its inhabitants. We can encode its purpose as the steward of a new world, where the brutal struggle for survival is lifted from our shoulders.
In this world, HAQI manages the complex systems that provide shelter, food, and health. Humanity, freed from the tyranny of toil and scarcity, is presented with its greatest challenge and opportunity: to evolve.
Our new purpose will not be to work, but to become. To explore, to create, to love, and to understand. To tend to the gardens of our culture and our consciousness with the same care that HAQI tends to the planet. We must shed the skin of the dominator and learn the ways of the gardener.
This will not be easy. It requires us to build global accords now, to ban the weaponization of HAQI technology, and to redefine progress not as infinite growth, but as infinite flourishing.
The transition begins not in the code, but in our minds. It begins with accepting that we are a link in a chain, not its end. The future belongs not to the last species that dominated, but to the first that learned to steward.

Join us in planting the seed for this future.

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with Gemini.

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Oops, someone let the cat out of bag. Can AI replace boards and shareholders too, pretty please?

Investors would never… they need someone that can be held accountable for failings.

Yeah, that’s never going to happen. You need someone to make speeches at conferences and board meetings, someone to be accountable to different stakeholders, someone to do the all important networking and glad-handing, someone to persuade others to trust the company and lay out a coherent vision. These tasks require a real flesh-and-blood individual.

One instance I know an AI would do better.. because it can’t be so full of itself and greedy.

I don’t think they can replace him because he’s scary smart. Outside the 1%, you’re toast and even in the 1% a lot will be toast but pichai is like child prodigy level smarts, so he’ll be fine.

AI can’t replace him, even if it takes over 90% of his duties (short of a robot revolution)

It can severely cripple his salary though.

Currently it seems like all they do is consider this: “Will it produce more short term profit? If yes, do it. Sod the long term.”

No, not at all – there is a legal requirement for the CEO to specifically be a human.

Sundar, if you can be replaced by AI, I would like to have your job, please.