From Davos Man to Davos Bot?

In an age of robotic decision-making, are CEOs necessary? It’s a question that needs to be asked, and Frank Pasquale is asking it:

When BART workers went on strike, Silicon Valley worthies threatened to replace them with robots. But one could just as easily call for the venture capitalists to be replaced with algorithms. Indeed, one venture capital firmadded an algorithm to its boardin 2013. Travis Kalanick, the CEO of Uber, responded to a question on driver wage demands by bringing up thepros...