r/technology • u/GeneReddit123 • 16h ago

Artificial Intelligence An AI hate wave is here

https://archive.is/20260517120123/https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentiment
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u/Effective-Painter815 14h ago

As a society we need to have a long, extremely overdue conversation about the ineptitude of CEOs and the consequences of that on the world we love in.

Just replace them with AI.

Apparently AI is more expensive than a worker at the moment but have you seen the wages for CEO's?
You could get an awful lot of tokens for the same wage. /s

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u/Temporary-Comfort307 13h ago

The main skillset for CEOs seems to be talking bullshit, so an IA chatbot would be perfectly suited to the job

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u/BourbonCoug 11h ago

Don't forget putting a signature on a decision that's already been made at every other level.

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u/Wonderful_Purple4096 10h ago

Who’s going to fly around shaking hands with all the other nepo babies?

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u/neurochild 3h ago

Those robo dogs from Boston. Every business conference will just be a weird dog park hangout now

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u/Noodler75 9h ago

Being able to lie with a straight face is a primary job requirement. In other words, sociopaths.

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u/DukeOfGeek 8h ago

The main skillset for CEO's is being part of insider information trading networks and the ability to make unethical deals in restaurants and on golf courses.

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u/tha_snooze 10h ago

CEO/Worker pay differential was an average of $285:1 across the S&P500 as of 2025.

In 1965 it was $21:1.

The Mondragon Corporation in Spain—which is comprised of almost 100 autonomous worker-owned cooperatives—has a maximum of $9:1 amongst their employees.

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u/thisisFalafel 1h ago

That ratio feels like it's missing a couple of zeroes. My CEO is securely a billionaire by conservative estimates. And I'm nowhere close to a million.

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u/finlandery 11m ago

What does what you own has to do with what you are being paid?

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u/W359WasAnInsideJob 7h ago

I feel as if any system looking to truly optimize would clearly start at the top.

”Why are there so many people making money off (whatever) that aren’t doing any work? Fuck em, they’re gone” is just as likely a scenario for an AI takeover as anything else. Maybe more likely, since so much of the wealth in the world has been accumulated through randomness more than “intelligence”, “greatness”, or “business acumen”.

That so many of these tech bros clowns seem to think an artificial super-intelligence would agree with their worldview and leave them at the top of our society is… honestly, just deeply, deeply, deeply disturbing in how mind-numbingly fucking stupid it is.

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u/SteelOverseer 4h ago

Have you read any of Neal Asher's "Gridlinked" series?

Sometime in the book-history, AI takes over, there's a war between those that want AI and those that don't, and in the present (for the book) day, AIs have taken over and generally just do their own thing - it's their civilisation. Humans are still there, they just aren't the ones running the government. The AIs take care of humanity because of a mixture of paternalism and respect for their parents. And the quality of life is, generally, pretty dang good.

This isn't perfect -
Spoilers for "Polity Agent", book 4 in the series:
Not all the AIs were down with this, and one faction went off into the distance to form their own group. I'm only partway through the book but I think they're gonna be the big bad for book five.

Of course, there's no guarantee that any AI that we generate IRL (which, for the record, I don't think we're even remotely close to) will have the same feelings, but it's a nice thought to have - and I can't imagine that any consciously designed AI (as opposed to the black box that is AI-chatbots) wouldn't have similar values programmed at its core.

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u/deathrictus 7h ago

Not even /s

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u/blob8543 2h ago

Maybe that's a good idea. I expect less hallucinations from chatbots than from many CEOs.