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Manna
2008 · Film
Directed by Hubert Gotkowski
A perverse and funny story of two young men who wake up one day in a cluttered car in the middle of the forest. Neither of them knows under what circumstances they ended up here. Neither of them has any idea how to get out of there. Meanwhile, mysterious pieces of paper begin to fall from the sky, allowing them to make one wish.
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Close. Automate middle management.
All the things mentioned in the article really are prime candidates for automation. But that's management, not leadership.
Management is primed to be automated. See Marshall Brain's book "Manna" for a great take on what's possible here.
Leadership is not. LLM's are great at doing the right things when there's a general consensus on what the right things are. Best practices, etc.
But what the current technology cannot do, and what I think LLMs specifically could never do, is know when to break the rules.
As Phil Knight may or may not have said (he was quoted in the new Air movie): You're remembered for the rules you break. That's leadership.
A great CEO needs to be a leader first and foremost, and a manager second.
Yea, it seems every year we are moving closer and closer to some dark mixture of Manna, Fifteen Million Merits [1] and Elysium [2], where regular people no longer serve any purpose, and are simply warehoused somewhere to keep them out of the hair of the few rich elite.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)