A group of software engineers who claim they were fired by their bosses because of artificial intelligence have decided to hit back at their former employers using the same weapon.
Driven by their desire for revenge and their friendship, they created OpenExecutive, an artificial intelligence system designed to do the work of a CEO or even the
entire management team, reports TechRadar , quoted by BTVNovinite.
“Work continues non-stop. Management cannot grow at the same pace ,” a demonstration video begins, while a musical composition titled “Corporate Music Uplifting” plays in the background.
The team describes its AI system, perhaps ironically, as “a senior advisor with Harvard MBA-level knowledge.” Whether that description is convincing probably depends on how much everyone values a Harvard MBA.
OpenExecutive uses several Claude AI models, developed by Anthropic. By default, the system runs Claude Sonnet 4.6, while Claude Opus 4.7 is reserved for tasks that require “deep reasoning.”
The model can remember the decisions it made
The system includes eight AI agents, each playing the role of a different executive, including the chief strategy officer, chief financial officer, and chief human resources officer. Together, they form a single “management personality” – essentially, the CEO.
The developers claim that the AI can learn from company documents and remember recommendations and decisions made, something that can’t always be said for some executives with conveniently selective memories. Skeptics can analyze the system on their own, as it is open source.
Will OpenExecutive make CEOs useless? Probably not. Regardless of what people think of them, running a company involves many things that a machine can’t replicate, like taking responsibility—though that may not be the best example.
The same argument can be used in the case of employees, with the important difference that the people at the bottom of the hierarchy do almost all the work.
Following the questionable logic of CEOs themselves, once there is a tool that can do their job more efficiently than them and that has none of the inconveniences associated with human employees, such as strikes or demands for pay raises, they should have no problem replacing them, the publication also writes.
Of course, some AI-obsessed CEOs might see such tools as an advantage. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly developing an AI agent to help him with his work.
He also creates a photorealistic AI clone of himself so that he can be virtually present everywhere in the company. It is possible, of course, that this is the version that his subordinates, the AI executives, present to him while they are actually waiting for the thinking machines to become powerful enough to remove him from office.
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