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BCG PRESENTS: Imagine This...: A Bot in the C-Suite?

Mar 13, 2024

Imagine a future where AI occupies top leadership roles and CEOs collaborate with AI bots. The podcast explores the integration of AI in the C-Suite, emphasizing trust and collaboration with AI systems. It discusses augmented collective intelligence and the importance of adjusting temperature settings in language models for creativity.

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Mickey McManus

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Quick takeaways

AI bots could occupy C-Suite roles, requiring humans to blend logic with intuition.

CEOs need to collaborate with AI, develop ethics frameworks, and foster adaptability for future success.

Deep dives

AI in the C-Suite: Transition to AI Executives

In this episode, the podcast delves into a future scenario where AI bots occupy half of the C-Suite positions. Mickey McManus discusses the role of General De Beyai, an AI system capable of diverse tasks like coaching, creativity, and command. It highlights the potential of AI systems to take action independently, even hiring humans to solve complex tasks like decoding captchas.

Introduction

2min

AI Integration in the C-Suite

11min

Exploring Trust and Collaboration with AI Systems

2min

Augmented Collective Intelligence in the C-Suite

8min

Exploring Temperature Settings in Language Models

4min

What would you have done differently if you had anticipated the likelihood of a global pandemic or the explosion of generative AI? In BCG’s newest podcast Imagine This..., BCG’s editor in chief Paul Michelman, and his AI co-host GENE delve into disruptive scenarios that could define the coming decades. BCG experts join the conversation, probing the possibilities and implications for leaders. Human and machine work together to explore the very real actions CEOs could take today to prepare.

By 2030, the best CIO might be a CIB: a chief intelligence bot. And the human CEO might be bolstered by a swarm of CEO bots, able to harness a vast diversity of perspectives. Can you imagine? In this episode, BCG’s Mickey McManus envisions a future where top leaders share the corner office with AI—blending the logical with human intuition. Mickey, a BCG senior advisor and a pioneer in human-centered design, considers how a company like this would function. Hint: he recommends an approach much like jazz improvisation.

Learn More

You’ll find more of what BCG has to say about generative AI here:

https://on.bcg.com/3UuWtNd

GenAI on GenAI: https://lnk.to/bcg-genai-on-genai-series-link05

Also, in this episode, Mickey recommends an entirely new reading list for the C-suite, including:

Iain M. Banks’s Culture series: https://www.amazon.com/The-Culture-9-book-series/dp/B07WLZZ9WV

Joy Buolamwini’s Unmasking AI [https://www.amazon.com/Unmasking-AI-Mission-Protect-Machines/dp/0593241835]

Safiya Umoja Noble’s Algorithms of Oppression [https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Oppression-Search-Engines-Reinforce/dp/1479837245]

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