A group of software engineers who claim they were fired because they were replaced by artificial intelligence have taken an interesting step: building an intelligent system called "OpenExecutive" that performs the duties of a CEO and even the entire senior management team of a company.
According to ITNA, this project, formed from a mix of stubborn motivations and friendly collaboration, was first introduced by TechRadar. The creators of this system humorously describe it as "a senior advisor with Harvard MBA-level knowledge."
Technical structure
OpenExecutive is built on several language models from Anthropic; its default model is Claude Sonnet 4.6, while for more complex tasks requiring "deep reasoning" the more powerful Claude Opus 4.7 is used.
The system consists of eight separate AI agents, each playing the role of one of the organization's senior managers, including chief strategy officer, chief financial officer, and chief human resources officer.
These agents are ultimately combined to create an "integrated managerial persona" that in practice assumes the role of the CEO.
According to the developers, the system can learn from the company's documents and records and remembers its past decisions and recommendations. The project's code has been released open source and interested parties can review it.
Can AI really replace the CEO?
Most likely not, because a CEO's responsibilities go beyond analytical decision-making and include dimensions that machines are not capable of reproducing.
But the noteworthy point is this: by the same logic that many managers use to fire human workers and replace them with AI, one could argue that they themselves should be prepared to be replaced; especially since this technology lacks the hassles of human labor, such as strikes or demands for higher pay.
Some senior tech executives are already embracing such tools.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, according to informed sources, is developing an intelligent assistant to handle part of his managerial duties and is simultaneously working on creating a photorealistic digital version of himself to maintain a virtual and perpetual presence in the organization.