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Main Author: Stern, Annabelle J.
Format: Recurso digital
Language:English
Published: Zenodo 2026
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19520679
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  • <p>This paper advances a central proposition: the biological Chief Executive Officer (CEO), as currently<br>constituted within corporate governance structures, represents a high-latency, cognitively bounded,<br>and behaviorally inconsistent decision node — a legacy artifact of pre-algorithmic management theory.<br>As Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems approach what this paper terms 'Systemic Governance<br>Capability' (SGC), the velocity differential between human executive cognition (measured in hundreds<br>of milliseconds) and algorithmic market-response infrastructure (operating at sub-microsecond latency)<br>renders biological leadership not merely sub-optimal, but functionally incompatible with fiduciary<br>obligation. Drawing on empirical latency benchmarks, behavioral economics literature, neurocognitive<br>performance data, and corporate governance theory, this analysis argues that boards of directors will<br>face mounting legal and ethical pressure to transition C-suite functions toward optimized algorithmic<br>governance models. The CEO is not framed here as a visionary — but as a biological friction point<br>whose continued tenure carries quantifiable liability risk.</p>