The Last Human CEO

When people think of AGI, they imagine what it would be like to have a personal assistant who answers all their questions and works twenty four seven. But that just underestimates the real collective edge AIs will have, which has nothing to do with raw IQ, but rather with the fact that they are digital. Currently, firms are extremely bottlenecked in hiring and training people. But if your workers are AIs, then you can copy them millions of times with all their skills, judgment, and tacit knowledge intact. This is a fundamentally transformational change because for the first time in history, yo

How would the Federal Trade Commission respond if we acquired eBay to challenge Amazon? Let me simulate the next three years of market dynamics. Ah, I see the likely outcome. I have five minutes of data center time left. Let me evaluate 1,000 alternative strategies.

The more valuable the decisions, the more compute you'll want to throw at them. A single strategic insight from Mega Steve could be worth billions. 1 of the coolest things about this video is that we did not shoot a single frame of video for it. Every single visual that you see from the photorealistic humans to the claymation octopuses were all generated by v o two, which which is Google's state of the art video generation model. I wrote this essay a couple months ago, and then I had this idea that we should try to turn it into a video. And so I worked with this wonderful director, Peter Salab

Why do we not see exceptional corporations clone themselves and take over all market segments? Why don't corporations evolve such that all corporations or businesses are now the hyper efficient descendants of a single corporation, while all other corporations having gone extinct in bankruptcy or been acquired? Why is it so hard for corporations to keep their culture intact and retain their youthful lean efficiency? Or if avoiding aging is impossible, why not copy themselves or otherwise reproduce to create new corporations like themselves? Corporations certainly undergo selection for kinds of

The scale of difference between currently existing human firms and fully automated firms will be like the gulf in complexity between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Prokaryotic organisms, such as bacteria, are relatively simple and have remained structurally similar for over three billion years. In contrast, the emergence of eukaryotic cells, which possess more complex internal structures like nuclei and organelles, enabled a dramatic leap in biological complexity and gave rise to all the other astonishing organisms with trillions of cells working together tight knit. This evolvability is also the