Google cofounder Sergey Brin recently rambled his way through a conversation on management in the age of AI:
"Management is like the easiest thing to do with AI," Brin said.
Apparently, management, for Brin, consists of summarizing meetings and assigning to-dos:
"It could suck down a whole chat space and then answer pretty complicated questions," he said. "I was like: 'OK, summarize this for me. OK, now assign something for everyone to work on.’”
So far, so bad. Where it gets really fun is when he lets AI make promotion decisions:
"It actually picked out this young woman engineer who I didn't even notice; she wasn't very vocal," he said. "I talked to the manager, actually, and he was like, 'Yeah, you know what? You're right. Like she's been working really hard, did all these things.’”
And as he clearly has outsourced his management to an AI, he doesn’t even really know if this all has happened or not:
"I think that ended up happening, actually," Brin said of the promotion.
All in all, it’s a pretty bleak vision for the future.
