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adjl posted...

Well, yes, but you can't really code a human CEO with a new objective if you don't like their current one. Not without some very ethically questionable methods, at least.

Yes, but if you change the context of what a CEO is, human CEOs would attempt to fulfill the requirements simply by virtue of it being their job. This is how employment generally works.



adjl posted...

It's a standard they'd meet if they had no other choice but to meet it. As it stands, they choose not to

It's a standard they choose not to meet because it is literally not their job.

Again, you're essentially adding extra stipulations to the role, then holding it against human CEOs for failing to live up to a standard that doesn't actually exist. You're defining the obligations of a CEO by your own feelings of what the job should be, not based on what actual companies want their CEOs to be.

What you're doing is the equivalent of complaining about your garbageman because he doesn't also wash your car and mow your lawn for you. Sure, it would be awesome if a garbageman (oh, wait, sorry, "sanitation worker") went so far above and beyond their job that they helped out in other ways, but they're not being paid to do so, they're not expected to do so, and ultimately, you'd be wrong for judging them poorly for not doing so.

The problem isn't the CEO, it's how the role is defined in business. Replacing human CEOs with AI CEOs wouldn't change that in the slightest, because the AIs would be programed with the exact same expectations and obligations. What you want/need is to redefine the entire corporate structure and ethos.

I'm not even suggesting you're wrong to think that CEOs should be expected to consider more than just the corporate bottom line, or that the world wouldn't be a better place if businesses were incentivized to care more about their customers/employees/the environment/etc. But that's not the world we actually live in. And AI isn't going to change that.

This is essentially a "garbage in, garbage out" scenario. AIs will only be as good as their programming. And it's still humans programming them (whether directly or indirectly).