The cybernetic CEO (robinsloan.com)
Robin Sloan on Dean Ball’s essay, Where Are We Headed:
If Dean is a believer — one who will state plainly, “Most of the thinking and doing in America will soon be done by machines, not people”—then at least he is a very interesting believer, writing with a density and quality that’s provocative and truly useful.
For my part, (1) I’m not sure any of this is really going to function outside of the magic circle of SAAS companies building software for SAAS companies, and (2) the prospect of working in this kind of firm, one of the outnumbered humans toiling alongside the CEO’s servile AI swarm, sounds pretty awful.