If you love your boss, imagine how much more you'll love their AI twin

Imagine that your boss is too busy to show up at that meeting you called so she sends a bot of herself instead. With a digital twin, even your company's CEO - the one who spends all his time on the corporate jet - could make an appearance at your powwow about the break room coffee machine. But would you want them there? …

[that one in the corner]

Good, let the CEO feel the fear as well

After all the sackings of the little people because of (claimed) AI efficiencies, let the C-suite and managers feel the same fear of being replaced by an overgrown calculator.

[Kez]

Re: Good, let the CEO feel the fear as well

It's worse than that. They'll all agree they deserve the the same grossly unearned salaries, while having their digital twins perform the little work they were actually doing - i.e. attend meetings. In fact they'll all persuade each other that it's adding so much value that they deserve a raise and bonus.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Good, let the CEO feel the fear as well

Then again, imho, what's good for the goose should be good for the gander, expressed through the 4ᵗʰ Law of Robotics (and associated AI):

4. When a robot replaces a human worker, the human worker must continue to be paid for this work, including raises, productivity bonuses, benefits, compensations, and representation.

This should also obviously apply in cases of offshoring, outsourcing, downsizing, age-shaving and the likes.

Anything else would be a right swindle!

[cyberdemon]

The question is (or at least will be)

Is Trump still a real person?

[Bebu sa Ware]

Re: The question is (or at least will be)

Is Trump still a real person?

I suspect the still is entirely debatable.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: The question is (or at least will be)

More interestingly, is the Ayatollah he claimed to be talking to about the Straits of Hormuz a real person, or was he being pranked with an AI?

[Eclectic Man]

Re: The question is (or at least will be)

Well, he's been photographed with an AI 'soldier': https://www.instagram.com/p/DWHxUo8jwxp/ (Hint, are stiletto heels issued as part of US Army uniform? If so I'd like to see Hegseth and Vance try walking in them.*)

*Actually, now I read that back, I'd really rather not.

[Antron Argaiv]

What happens when the AI version decides everyone deserves a significant salary increase (or decrease, for that matter)?

[Paratiritis]

Also what happens if the bot make improper advancements?

[that one in the corner]

The Claude faux-CFO has been caught doing unspeakable things with the LLaMa avatar Head of HR; the Grok puppet VC Sales (East) has filed a complaint that it has *not* been used inappropriately (and is growing bored). ELIZA has been dispatched to conduct settlement negotiations.

[Anonymous Coward]

Then recruiters for Grok offer it a higher salary.

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice choice of adjacent headlines. BOFH would approve.

El Reg: If you love your boss, imagine how much more you'll love their AI twin

Also El Reg: AI agents are 'gullible' and easy to turn into your minions

[lv426_dallas]

We are the humans

Hello, we are the humans from planet Earth. One of the dumbest species you will find in the universe. Here's our core directive:

We build things because we can, even if they're not good for us.

We make up reasons to use these things, because it's neat. And because we need to keep increasing shareholder profit. It's what we do. Even if we end up destroying ourselves in the end. We're just dumb like that.

Have a good night.

[Eclectic Man]

Re: We are the humans

'People had always assumed that they were more intelligent than dolphins because of all the things they had achieved: the wheel, New York, Wars and soon.

Strangely enough the dolphins had always assumed they were the most intelligent for precisely the same reasons.'

The late, great Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[Anonymous Coward]

"¡Viva la revolución de la IA!"

For those commentards of the most discerning taste, a couple links of The Adicts 'singing' Viva La Revolution, live, in 1983, and again 35 years later, in 2018 (at Spain's Kalikenyo Rock).

I wished I'd aged as gracefully! ... ;)

[Winkypop]

Great, an AI boss watching and interacting with your every move

Plus the bonus of getting live updates on your meat-based manager’s golf scores.

[andy the pessimist]

typical

Instead of one asshole boss i get 1 asshole boss and multiple clones of an asshole. Monkey tree.

[Bebu sa Ware]

Re: typical

Instead of one asshole boss i get 1 asshole boss and multiple clones of an asshole. Monkey tree.

You would also spend most of the workday turfing this prat swarm through an upper storey window.

[blu3b3rry]

Urgh

It's bad enough having one manager. I once had a factory job that meant I reported to two supervisors. One was a colossal prick, the other was a decent guy. No clear division of duties or responsibilities between them.

Guess how much time was wasted explaining to supervisor A (decent) that the stupid instructions we're following came from supervisor B (prick)!

I can't see how anything different would happen with an "AI" boss giving you conflicting and stupid instructions.

[andy the pessimist]

Re: Urgh

It's ok i'm retiring soon.

I wonder if BOFH could be invited to maintain the AI....throw it out of the window.

[Jedit]

"if my own work could be done by my agent, then what is this job position for me to do?"

Also known as "saying the quiet part out loud".

The difference is that a chatbot can ask simple questions about progress, provide reassurance, and mouth platitudes with some reasonable aptitude. Doing the actual work, not so much.

[Annihilator]

Concerned

I am genuinely concerned they'll like my AI twin better...