Posted by At the ESOF conference, June 13, 2024, Olaf Flak, Ph.D., gave a presentation on replacing human managers with robots based on artificial intelligence. He has always been interested in robotics, and for the past 15 years has been involved in the search for a way to construct a robot manager. He is the creator of online manager tools on the TransistorsHead.com platform, aimed at monitoring manager’s performance and determining their behavior patterns, and then automating them and replacing the human manager with a robot manager.
To do this, he developed a methodology for studying the organizational reality in which the robot manager is to work. He described it in his book “System of organizational terms. A methodological concept for studying organizational reality” (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, pages 478, ISBN 978-83-226-3322-9).
Artificial intelligence plans our travels, answers our questions, writes books and paints pictures. One day a robot will be our co-worker, doing our work or replacing us when we are on vacation. We rarely think about what would happen if a robot was the boss. How would they feel if at a research team meeting, instead of a good friend, a robot showed up and introduced itself as a project manager or…. dean of the faculty?
During the presentation, Olaf Flak, Ph.D., told how to build a robot manager, what it would be like to work together with one, and why it is still impossible to buy a private Steve Jobs, despite ChatGPT, machine learning, deep learning and similar artificial intelligence methods.