- AI Dataiku company published an investigation that said that most of the CEOs feared losing their jobs against AI. Business managers are also worried about moving too slowly, for fear that they will not lose their job in the face of a faster and faster managing director.
What do the CEOs of artificial intelligence really think? The question harassed the CEO of Dataiku Florian Douetteau – whose company sells AI software to businesses – and its team enough to order an investigation to discover it.
One thing has become clear of the results: CEOs see AI as a threat to their positions.
In the investigation74% of CEOs overall – and 79% in the United States – have lost their jobs within two years if they do not provide measurable commercial gains focused on AI. The survey, conducted by Harris Poll in the name of Dataiku earlier this year, questioned 500 CEOs in Europe and the United States
“Part of the thing we have learned of the survey is that many CEOs realize that they must do things on AI and are almost, to some extent, fearing to lose their jobs or their position because of the AI, because of not doing it enough,” said Douetteau on Tuesday FortuneBrainstorm AI event in Paris.
For Dataiku, knowing how CEOs see AI could be useful. Customers as varied as Morgan StanleyGe aviation, and Lost farms Use its platform to manage the data, analysis and projects of the AI. Founded in 2013 in Paris, the company Latest assessment reported was $ 3.7 billion.
Failure of AI strategies
In the survey, 70% of CEOs said they thought that CEO colleague would be ousted at the end of the year due to a stranded AI strategy or an AI crisis, according to the survey.
In the worst case, said Douetteau, business leaders deploy a defective AI initiative “to break something … They create a problem”.
But CEOs also see the risk of not moving quickly enough with AI, he added. Although they can be accused of being irresponsible with technology if they move too fast, they also fear being replaced by a new generation, the CEO of IA-D’Abord if they turn too slowly, he said.
“This is a time when many organizations will really transform their productivity, when the one who will go faster in AI will potentially be a big winner, but also when people who go too fast and will create risks in their business could also be the first losers,” he said.
If AI has CEOs on Edge, their management teams should also be wary, the investigation results suggest. “Half of all the CEOs questioned believes that AI can replace 3-4 members of the management team for strategic planning purposes,” said the investigation report. And “89% think that AI can develop a better strategic plan than a member of their management team.”
Douetteau also noted a survey result showing that 94% of CEOs estimated that an AI “agent” could provide equal or higher advice on commercial decisions than a member of the human board of directors “.
This story was initially presented on Fortune.com
