If AI Can Replace 80% of a CEO… Why Climb?

Recently, the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, shared something interesting.

He asked AI about his own role.

The answer?

“About 80% of what you do can be replaced by AI.”

Now pause.

If even a CEO’s work can be automated…
Is there any point climbing the corporate ladder?

Let me give you the uncomfortable truth.

AI can replace tasks.
AI cannot replace burden.

A CEO’s real job is not writing emails.
Not analysing reports.
Not preparing slides.

AI can do that faster.

A CEO’s real job is this:

When the numbers look good but the culture feels wrong, what do you choose?

When shareholders demand profit but your conscience says no, what do you do?

When the market collapses and thousands of employees are afraid, who stands in front?

AI can simulate scenarios.

But AI does not absorb fear.
AI does not carry blame.
AI does not feel the weight of a decision that affects 20,000 families.

Leadership is not processing data.

Leadership is absorbing pressure and still choosing responsibly.

And here is what is really happening in the AI era:

The ladder is not disappearing.

The ladder is shrinking.

Fewer layers.
Fewer managers.
Higher emotional maturity required at the top.

In the past, promotion meant:
“I know more.”

Now information is free.

Promotion now means:
“I decide better.”

And that is where Love Intelligence comes in.

Care — so you understand impact beyond spreadsheets.
Courage — so you choose principles over popularity.
Connection — so people trust you when uncertainty rises.

AI increases efficiency.

LQ increases authority.

If you climb without LQ, AI will compress you.

If you climb with LQ, AI becomes your amplifier.

The future does not belong to those who fear AI.

It belongs to those who can remain deeply human while using it.

That is the new executive advantage.

If AI can replace 80% of what you do…
then your future depends on the 20% it cannot.

AI can analyse.
AI can optimise.
AI can predict.

But AI cannot carry responsibility.
It cannot choose values over convenience.
It cannot stand in front of frightened people and say,
“I will take the blame.”

The higher you climb,
the less your job is about information —
and the more it is about judgement.

And judgement is not IQ.

It is Care.
It is Courage.
It is Connection.

That is Love Intelligence.

So don’t compete with AI on speed.

Compete on depth.

Let AI be your amplifier.
But never let it become your replacement.

Because in the end,
technology may shape the future —
but character decides who leads it.