'It allows workers to experiment with the same logic their employers have been applying to them' — developers reportedly lost their jobs to an ‘AI Transformation’, so they built an AI that can replace the CEO
A group of developers reportedly lost their jobs during what their employer called an “AI Transformation.” Their response was unusually literal.
They built OpenExecutive , an open-source system designed to perform work associated with a CEO and the rest of the executive suite.
The employer and CEO have not been named in the online discussion, and OpenExecutive’s own materials don't present it as revenge for a particular firing.
That said, it's hard not to see some specific grievances in both the project and the response online, with lots of comments gleefully welcoming senior management to the automation discussion.
The appeal is easy to understand after several years of executives explaining that AI will make organizations leaner, usually while standing a comfortable distance from the part being trimmed.
OpenExecutive presents one AI executive to the user, but that voice is backed by eight specialist agents.
The virtual management team includes equivalents of everything from a chief strategy officer and chief operating officer to general counsel and a board communications director.
It can draw on company documents, remember previous decisions, and surface follow-up actions later.
Org chart forked OpenExecutive uses Anthropic’s Claude models by default, with an executive agent routing requests to whichever specialists seem relevant.
The developers pitch it as a C-suite group chat in which everyone responds promptly.
The project is distributed under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.
Anyone can inspect it, modify it, run it internally or build a commercial product around it.
That open-source element gives the project more weight than a chatbot sold as a digital chief executive might usually represent.
It also allows workers to experiment with the same logic their employers have been applying to them.
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