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Executives are twice as likely as rank-and-file workers to trust AI over their own judgment, per a survey out Wednesday morning.

It's a worrying development. Leaders are hired for their experience and knowledge.

Outsourcing that to AI raises the risk of making decisions that don't line up with reality, which then reverberate across companies and beyond.

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[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This means they should never use AI because they are uniquely vulnerable to AI disinformation and likely AI pyschosis.

We need a new generation of CEO that can actually think for themselves, as bizarre as that sounds.

[-] moustachio@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

We need to move away from CEOs and capitalism.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Agreed, but we need to come up with a better system and convince people to switch.

[-] demonsword@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

we just need a critical mass % of people willing to break the current system down, the rest can be dragged along, kicking and screaming all the way

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Leaders are hired for their experience and knowledge.

[citation needed]

[-] spacegoat@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Because in their heart of hearts they know that they are skillless and worthless

[-] Cherry@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

So if it’s better at thinking than they are it renders them redundant

[-] DementedSociety@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Makes perfect sense

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 118 points 2 days ago

Because executives are dumb as fuck

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Most execs are sociopaths

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

But still, I didn't think they were aware of it, this is surprising!

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 89 points 2 days ago

leaders are hired for their experience and knowledge

Not because they’re Machiavellian wall-climbers?

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 37 points 2 days ago

The statement is correct. Executives aren't leaders.

[-] bold_omi@lemmy.today 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Ah, right, and leaders are always experienced and knowledgeable. Explain how that applies to hereditary rule or oligarchy, then.

[-] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 22 points 1 day ago

In other words... AI has reached a point allegedly that can now replace executives. So why have them?

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Ai would certainly be cheaper, and much less emotionally unstable even given how completely fucked it is.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I mean, have you seen the decisions they were making without it? Probably 50:50 on C-staff

closer to the work, you have to trust the workers decisions quite a bit more.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 33 points 1 day ago

Well that about wraps it up for anyone who still believed in the usefulness of executives.

[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 days ago

Is there any more evidence needed to show that Managers do not deserve the outrageous pay they've been getting?

[-] variaatio@nord.pub 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Their decades long usage of consulting companies to be a sycophantic permission giver, since they don't want to bother making well founded good business decisions. "Don't blame me, I hired a consult and they said to do this. If decision was the wrong one, it is the consults fault. Then we hire a consult to figure out what the last consult did wrong. Then consult to consult on the consultation of the second consult on the first consults consultation". Please pay me millions and millions of dollar to be a consult hiring person. Oh and please a golden parachute promise also, in case I need to get fired pronto.

If one was able to do good decisions on ones own, is confident on those decisions and able to make the arguments to back up the decision, one wouldn't need to hire the consults to be the professional fall guys.

edit: Oh and I don't know is it really needed, but well it is evidence point that also exists. So they simply changed "consult" to "AI agent"

[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 30 points 2 days ago

Coincidentally, rank-and-file workers are also twice as likely to trust AI over their executives’ judgement.

[-] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Yes, sadly in this case, they are in fact correct in assuming the AI has better judgment than themselves. It's a very low bar to clear.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

So let the AI do their jobs and redistribute their compensation to the employees

[-] bold_omi@lemmy.today 2 points 23 hours ago

It is already doing their jobs. They need to be replaced with people selected from productive non-managerial roles at the workplace and replaced often.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

In capitalism we distribute them to the shareholders. Or the AI's shareholders. Often the same.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Make the employees shareholders then

[-] Korkki@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago

You really can get far in management with charisma, ass-kissing, boundless optimism and ability to take credit on everything. None are really markers for smart or technically minded person, or even a moral one.

[-] bizzle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's really sad

[-] starchylemming@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago
[-] bold_omi@lemmy.today 1 points 23 hours ago

E.D. They have pills for that.

[-] Shin@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago

Wouldn't this be some sign of AI psychosis?

[-] pootzapie@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Guys this is it, the window we’ve been waiting for! All we need to do is inject pro union pro consumer tax paying sentiment into ai and we’re golden!! Like when they hijacked Rick santonrum’s name in google search…we did it!

[-] NewDark@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago

Honestly? Probably for the better on that one.

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