“Shame on me,” Altman told the Conversations with Tyler podcast in November 2025, “if OpenAI is not the first big company run by an AI CEO.” 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.