Rise of the Cloned CEO: Welcome to the Era of Infinite Sundars
Forget replacing junior analystsm, this vision of AI doesn’t stop until it replaces your CEO, clones them a million times, and runs the entire economy better than you ever could.
Most people imagine AGI as a clever assistant. Dwarkesh Patel argues it’s something far more transformative: a fully automated, infinitely replicable corporate brain. When talent becomes software, bottlenecks vanish.
Want 10,000 Jeff Bezos or a thousand PayPal Mafias? Just copy-paste. Management becomes frictionless, as AI Sundar doesn’t sleep, forget, or miscommunicate. Firms evolve faster, scale wider, and operate with perfect internal knowledge sharing.
It’s not just about IQ, it’s about architecture. The company of the future is a single intelligent organism, not a 'messy' collection of human intelligence. But will a single AI organism benefit from chance encounters at the water cooler?
If leadership becomes code and companies evolve like organisms, how should we rethink strategy, governance, and trust in the age of infinite replication? What would you still leave to humans?
Read the full article on Dwarkesh Podcast.
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