{"slug": "new-ai-designed-to-replace-ceos", "title": "New AI Designed to Replace CEOs", "summary": "A group of software engineers who say they lost their jobs to AI have built \"OpenExecutive,\" an open-source AI system designed to replace CEOs, using Anthropic's Claude models including Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.7. The system deploys eight AI agents acting as top executives to form a unified \"executive persona,\" and the developers claim it can learn from company documents and remember decisions. The project, reported by TechRadar, is a spite-driven response to employers' use of AI to replace workers, though its practical viability as a CEO substitute remains questionable.", "body_md": "A group of software engineers who say they were fired by their bosses because of AI are giving their former employers a taste of their own medicine.\n\nWith the powers of spite and friendship, they’ve built “OpenExecutive,” an AI system designed to do the work of a CEO, if not the entire c-suite, [*TechRadar* reports](https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/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).\n\n“Work happens around the clock. Leadership doesn’t scale with it,” a demo video begins, as a stock music track called “Corporate Music Uplifting” plays in the background.\n\nThe team describes their AI system, perhaps with their tongues in their cheeks, as a “senior advisor with Harvard MBA-level knowledge.” Whether you believe that or not probably reflects how much stock you put in Harvard MBAs.\n\nIn any case, OpenExecutive is built using several of Anthropic’s Claude AI models, the default being Claude Sonnet 4.6, with Claude Opus 4.7 being reserved for “deep reasoning” tasks.\n\nIt recruits eight AI agents that each act as a different top level executive, including the chief strategy officer, chief financial officer, and the head of human resources. Together, they form a single unified “executive persona” — in effect, the CEO.\n\nThe developers say that the AI can learn from company documents and remembers its recommendations and decisions — which is more than what you can say for some CEOs who have a conveniently selective memory. If you’re skeptical, you can poke around in the system yourself, since it’s open-source.\n\nIs OpenExecutive actually going to outmode the CEO? Probably not, since, whatever your opinions on them, there’s a lot to being the head of a company that a machine can’t emulate, like taking accountability (okay, bad example). But that’s the thing: you could argue the same thing for their employees, with the notable difference that the rank and file are the ones doing almost all the labor.\n\nAnd so, going by CEOs’ own specious logic, now that a tool exists that can do their job more efficiently than they can— coming with none of inconveniences that human workers bring, [like going on strike or asking for a raise](https://futurism.com/ceo-replacing-workers-ai) — then they should be okay with being replaced.\n\nOf course, some AI-obsessed bigwigs may see tools like this a boon. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is [reportedly building](https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/zuckerberg-training-an-ai-agent-ceo) a CEO AI agent to help him do his job. He’s also [building a photorealistic AI clone](https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-photorealistic-ai-clone-mark-zuckerberg) of himself so he can be virtually omnipresent throughout the company. Or maybe that’s the lie being fed to him by his underlings building the AI CEOs, so that he’ll be usurped by thinking machines once they become powerful enough.\n\n**More on AI:** *Mark Zuckerberg Had a Secret Plan to Replace Meta Staff With AI Agents, and It Backfired Spectacularly*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-ai-designed-to-replace-ceos", "canonical_source": "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-ai-designed-replace-ceos", "published_at": "2026-09-06 15:01:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-07 02:05:14.329999+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-products"], "entities": ["OpenExecutive", "Anthropic", "Claude Sonnet 4.6", "Claude Opus 4.7", "TechRadar", "Mark Zuckerberg", "Meta"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-ai-designed-to-replace-ceos", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-ai-designed-to-replace-ceos.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-ai-designed-to-replace-ceos.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-ai-designed-to-replace-ceos.jsonld"}}