Logitech Open To Adding an AI Agent To Board of Directors, CEO Says (fortune.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/16/1725256/logitech-open-to-adding-an-ai-agent-to-board-of-directors-ceo-says
- Source link: https://fortune.com/2025/10/13/logitech-ceo-open-to-ai-bot-board-member-fortune-most-powerful-women-conference/
> "We already use [AI agents] in almost every meeting," Faber said at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C., on Monday. While she said AI agents today (like Microsoft Copilot and internal bots) mostly take care of summarization and idea generation, that's likely to change owing to the pace at which the technology is developing.
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> "As they evolve -- and some of the best agents or assistants that we've built actually do things themselves -- that comes with a whole bunch of governance things," Faber said. "You have to keep in mind and make sure you really want that bot to take action. But if you don't have an AI agent in every meeting, you're missing out on some of the productivity." "That bot, in real time, has access to everything," she continued.
[1] https://fortune.com/2025/10/13/logitech-ceo-open-to-ai-bot-board-member-fortune-most-powerful-women-conference/
AI's first advice (Score:3)
Will it's first advice be get out of the mouse and keyboard market because in the future we will simply talk to our computers?
Logitech are my go to provider of mice and webcams, I wonder if they will still make quality options next time I need them?
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> Will it's first advice be get out of the mouse and keyboard market because in the future we will simply talk to our computers?
Why would there be anyone to talk to computers? Microphones are not much use for bots, a wireless connection module is all they need. Advice would probably be to get out of that puny human interface device market, and start making weapons for the killer drones to wipe those pesky competitors for energy from the planet.
World is crazy (Score:5, Insightful)
AI is so depressing. Billion spent to generate stupid video and text after ripping petabytes of content without consent. CEOs put AI everywhere and are in awe whatever the result. I hope the bubble explodes quickly, that's the best outcome.
Why not relpace the CEO too while you're at it (Score:2)
Of all the jobs out there, CEO should be the easiest to replace with AI, and the most logical. If AI great, start at the top!
Bad idea (Score:2)
Do you think the suits on the board will be smart enough to fact check everything the A.I. will tell them ? It will mislead them down the garden path wherever it wants based on all the misinformation and YouTube videos that it's ingested. Bad news for the investors. OTOH, because I don't own any Logitech stock, it could be a good, i.e. terrible, example for other companies that I might own stock in, of what not to do.
One request (Score:3)
As long as Logitech brings back their Trackman Marble trackball, they can do whatever they want with their board of directors.
why not replace the whole board with AI? (Score:4, Insightful)
Isn't that where this is headed? Save *all* the executive salaries?
Anyone else see conflict of interest between shareholders and execs? /Sarcastic but with a grain of reality to it.
oh, also, this assumes that AI is really super fit for this task.
I'm saying there is a lot of unmoored wishful thinking going on here.
We don't even know if AI can perform these functions to a high level of competence.
Re: (Score:2)
Or take the idea to its logical conclusion, and replace all the politicians with A.I.s. We probably wouldn't get worse government, we might even get better government, and think of the money we would save :-) And since we all hate at least half of the politicians, think of the warm glow of satisfaction we'd get seeing all those sociopathic drones actually having to work for a living.
That's not a terrifying sentiment. (Score:4, Insightful)
> "You have to keep in mind and make sure you really want that bot to take action. But if you don't have an AI agent in every meeting, you're missing out on some of the productivity." "That bot, in real time, has access to everything," she continued.
Nothing scary about that at all. Nope. Nothing at all. Just hand the keys to the kingdom over to the AI. What could possibly go wrong? It's not like there are any warning signs available in today's AI market. Nor has there ever been any fictional depictions of AIs going rogue and causing mayhem. I'm sure this will all work out splendidly.
On the bright side, the quicker a few known name companies pull moves like this and blow themselves up, the quicker we can get the rest of the C-Suit folks to stop salivating over AI everything and start treating it as just another tool to be scrutinized and used sparingly and appropriately until it is properly vetted.
Treat AI agents as consultants (Score:1)
Consultants provide information and give insight.
Corporate officers and board members make decisions and bear legal responsibility.
There is a difference.
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Also: Any AI "consulting" in an area where professional licensing is involved needs to "work" under the supervision of a licensed human professional who is responsible for all of the "work product" of the AI.
In other words, a company's board of directors shouldn't be allowed to consult with an AI on legal, engineering, or other matters without a licensed
Stock up on hardware. (Score:2)
Because it is about to be cheapened yet again. Because the AI will say so.
I know my next market move... (Score:3)
Time to short LOGI.
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There was a Superbowl ad in 2000 where an "up and coming" dot-com* had a monkey dance the entire ad, and at the end said something like, "We just wasted 2 million because we can ".
This smells like the same kind of arrogance.
* Oddly I think the company somehow survived the crash.