I think you need to have some experience on executive boards to truly grasp what happens. The good news is chances are your local youth sports organization is looking for people to be on their board every year.

There are a lot of decisions that get made that don't easily have a right or wrong answer. And picking what metrics to use to gauge success in itself can be a make or break for a company.

If it was easy to make a successful business operate we'd have far fewer business failures.

Ok but who gets to design the algorithm? Whoever that is now has all that power.

I do think you have a point that management and a lot of other office jobs are easier to automate than those working the jobs would like to believe.

AI is task oriented, not a mind replacement. Strong AI is the equivalent of a human mind with potentially more computing power. Such an entity has never been created. We don’t even know how our minds work let alone how to code one to run on a chip or set of chips. You could probably train models to make certain types of decisions, and these decisions would be more consistent and objective, but to make one that replaced humans outright with the breadth of decisions they make is not yet possible.

The algorithm would first have to want the job more than your basic executive does. You're talking about making AI that desires power.

No part of this would be easy, the task of creating an AI that makes decisions consistently and remembers them is already extremely difficult, and creating automated leadership wouldn’t benefit workers. You cannot simply “get some codeheads to make this happen.” When this thing does exist, it will be built by the likes of Zuckerberg or Bezos, and likely in their image, so I doubt it’ll be equitable. The AI’s motive would be to create profit for the company, so it would fire as many workers as it could and operate with the minimum number necessary. Even if it was implemented to account for your union rights / benefits, it would just become ever more cunning at exploiting them. Beyond that, it wouldn’t have any empathy for rule breakers or people who make mistakes, which to be fair most humans don’t. If you want workers to have equitable rights and make equitable profits, they need to be in charge of the company themselves or have some sort of profit share program where they are directly invested in the company’s success.

OP tried really hard to emulate the working process of executives, but cannot reach fidelity whatsoever. Turns out there is no working process anyway and it was just overthinking.

I mean this could be done without AI, its about the distribution of power in the organization. It's a wrong sense of realism (which I wouldn't assume this sub would buy into) to assume that just because the current predominant power distribution isn't a remnant of feudalism, mercantilism, colonialism or manorialism all of which are non-democratic systems. Our current systems even at the lowest level of organization whether it be families or businesses or etc often don't embrace more full versions of democracy and power distribution but its really inherited. AI could help answer questions a worker co-operative, which seems to be more what you're looking for asks of it. Worker Co-Operatives would still have leaders, pay divisions based on contributions and full democratic decision making vs the current system where someone is the CEO (king) until they die or retire or leave and everything is done according to their whim.

You seem to have no idea what executives do. Their jobs are probably the least automatable. I think you are trying to say you want to automate bureaucracy, which makes sense, but the problem you are encountering is not the fact executives exist, it is that the organization is terribly designed and run. Trying to use AI to fix that is a boomer take in itself ironically.

Money / inheritance doesn't make you smart. I know guys that would carry you ten miles, just to throw you in the canal. WOBBLIES!!!

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