CEOs are hugely expensive – why not automate them?
CEOs aren't paid for the day-to-day value they provide to the company.  They're paid for the long-term, strategic value the owners think they might provide the company <i>in comparison to other candidates.</i> So if you think CEO Candidate X will make you a 3x return on your investment, but CEO Candidate Y will make you a 5x return, it's almost certainly worth it to pay him/her the extra $200K to get you there, if that's the market demand.  You're paying for experience, contact network, etc. in a job like that much more than you are how many widgets they can produce on an assembly line.<p>So it seems that the idea that a CEO could be automated misses the point of what CEOs do and how they get hired.