In 30 Years, The Best Ceo Could Be A Robot

[Thunderian]

Yikes.

Jack Ma: In 30 years, the best CEO could be a robot
money.cnn.com/2017/04/24/technology/alibaba-jack-ma-30-years-pain-robot-ceo/

Even top tech executives think they could be replaced by robots one day.

Alibaba founder and chairman Jack Ma, the man Fortune Magazine just named one of the world's great leaders, predicts that technology will make many CEOs irrelevant in the not-too-distant future.

"In 30 years, a robot will likely be on the cover of Time Magazine as the best CEO," Ma said in a speech over the weekend at an entrepreneurship conference in central China. And he warned of dark times ahead for people who are unprepared for the upheaval technology is set to bring.

"In the next three decades, the world will experience far more pain than happiness," the billionaire said, adding that education systems must raise children to be more creative and curious or they will be ill-prepared for the future.

Robots are quicker and more rational than humans, Ma said, and they don't get bogged down in emotions -- like getting angry at competitors.

But he expressed optimism that robots will make life better for humans in the long run.

"Machines will do what human beings are incapable of doing," Ma said. "Machines will partner and cooperate with humans, rather than become mankind's biggest enemy."

Alibaba founder Jack Ma says "the world will experience far more pain than happiness" in the next 30 years.

That's a more relaxed outlook than that of another global tech leader, Elon Musk. The Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO said in 2014 that artificial intelligence is the greatest existential threat to humans, and he's now hoping to harness it in a way that will benefit society.

Ma's remarks come as Alibaba continues to expand beyond its main e-commerce business. The company is a leading provider of cloud computing that has been pushing the power of big data and has expanded into digital media.

Ma predicts that technology will eventually create a problem plenty of office workers would love to have: a shorter work week.

"In 10 or 20 years, people will work less than four hours a day, maybe three days a week," he predicted. With less time spent working, he said, we will question how to live.

 

[TMT]

Well do we have to pay them?

 

[mecca]

Well do we have to pay them?

pay whoever made the robot

 

[JoChris]

I swear they're trying to turn the world into the 80s cartoon series Astroboy.
If Machines do not have emotions they don't have the positive ones that keep what is left of society functioning at all.

Potential movie plot:
Employee with chronically sick relative
Robot CEO- "fire them, it's illogical to keep an expensive employee (pay for sick leave)" employee seeks revenge

 

[mecca]

CEOs already don't give a shit
A robot CEO really doesn't give a shit

 

[Mr. Blah]

CEOs already don't give a shit
A robot CEO really doesn't give a shit

The HRD should be robots too to enslave the human workers.

 

[Thunderian]

Computers already decide who qualifies for loans, and there are a lot of other areas where decisions are made by programs and not people. It's only a matter of time before they are making ALL the decisions.

 

[mecca]

Computers already decide who qualifies for loans, and there are a lot of other areas where decisions are made by programs and not people. It's only a matter of time before they are making ALL the decisions.

what if the program is coded biasedly

 

[Thunderian]

what if the program is coded biasedly

Can you expand on that a little? What do you mean?

 

[mecca]

Can you expand on that a little? What do you mean?

for example the loan programs only qualify certain people and exclude other groups unfairly, i think that would be pretty easy with coding

but idk

 

[makeorbreak]

One thing with robot CEO's would be that they probably wouldn't expect to be paid performance bonuses even if the company loses money that year. This happens all of the time with CEO's now. Retention bonuses also would be a thing of the past because you just keep the robot around and keep it away from other companies without having to pay it to stay.

 

[polymoog]

what if the program is coded biasedly

what if the program is transgender?

 

[mecca]

what if the program is transgender?

Programs are not living beings and they don't have the capacity to be transgender or any gender.

 

[Aero]

Well the robots will probably be more intelligent than the average CEO. Realistically? I would argue 50% or more of the CEOs in the world got there by nepotism alone. That doesn't automatically make them dummies, but it highlights the gray ethical lines. That businesses don't really function like how we are taught. Either by school or by media.

Ethics class? I think a lot of these business leaders out here should of taken a class called common decency. Because they have none. And I could go on, but this is about Robots being better than the average human. That's the problem really. So many people just settling to be average. The American dream if it was ever even real, is weak sauce. It's like yeah you got your house, and family. The rest of the world and country are pissing on that house and your family, but hey. America rules.

 

[polymoog]

Programs are not living beings and they don't have the capacity to be transgender or any gender.

do they have the capacity to know a joke when they read one?

 

[mecca]

do they have the capacity to know a joke when they read one?

No but I do.

 

[elsbet]

On days like this, the idea is fairly appealing. I can do without the drama and the misplaced blame.

Just saying.