Context:  Most of us are worried about what’s next with AI.  We got the doomers.  AI apocalypse is coming.  Media reinforces this with its doomsters.  Fortune Magazine June 4, 2024 expressed this:  “25 Year Old Antropic Employee Says She May Have only 3 Years Left To Work Because AI Will Replace Her.”

Kinda scary:  Avital Balwit, the chief of staff at Anthropic, says its an existential crisis:

““I stand at the edge of a technological development that seems likely, should it arrive, to end employment as I know it.”

CEO’s @ Risk:  OK.  We mostly think that knowledge workers are at risk.  But, someone has to make the final decisions.  But what about upper management – the folks who say AI is the new oil or electricity, the folks who pull all the organizational levers.

So, is the CEO job sacrosanct?  So, it won’t go away.  Ahh, may be….  And, most executives also think they are indispensable, NOT disposable.

The Numbers:  Nearly half (47%) of executives in a EdX survey said that “most” or “all” CEO’s could be replaced by AI.  Not good.  The basic assumptions of business are being challenged or disrupted.

Hard lesson earned:  NY Times quote from Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, predicted that in 30 years “a robot will likely be on the cover of Time Magazine as the best CEO.”

Kinda scary when you think about it?