The promise of an AI CEO, powered by machine learning and neural networks, is that it can streamline decision-making and improve management operations. Workers might not be ready to accept an AI CEO that has the power to hire and fire at will, for example. Yet an AI CEO might be able to imitate the qualities we expect from good leaders. An AI CEO can only ever be a bundle of predictive algorithms geared towards operational effectiveness. Against the anthropomorphisation of AIThe idea of an AI CEO is an extreme form of the anthropomorphisation of LLM-based systems.