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by vilya 3066 days ago
Is anyone out there working to automate middle management?
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If you use the Dilbert comic for training data, I suppose you could get pretty far.

In fact, turns out Scott Adams wrote a post on the topic: [1]

> ... My prediction that robots will dominate management before they dominate blue collar jobs is based on The Dilbert Principle which observes that the least skilled employees are promoted to management. You need your most skilled people doing interface design, engineering, and the hard stuff. Management is mostly about optimizing resource allocation, and that is something a robot can learn relatively easily, at least compared to most skilled jobs.

> You might wonder if a robot can have enough leadership qualities to be a manager. I would point out that most humans in management have zero leadership skills, so the bar isn’t set high ...

[1] http://blog.dilbert.com/2012/12/19/the-future-of-middle-mana...

Yes, but they are tackling middle management skills individually. Here's some progress on one front: http://projects.wsj.com/buzzwords2014/
Chaos Monkey?
They would need to outsource middle managers first, strangely that never seems to happen
Who are the middle managers going to be managing?