A parody-style website called OverpAId has been unveiled, calling for chief executive officers (CEOs) to be replaced with artificial intelligence (AI).

On July 24, the online media outlet Gigazine reported that the site puts forward the idea that executives should be replaced before employees as generative AI spreads.

OverpAId compares high CEO pay with the costs of introducing AI on its front page. The site says, “Your CEO labour cost is $22 million a year,” and lists its AI CEO cost as $4,699 per use. It is framed as being able to perform CEO tasks such as setting strategy, presenting a vision and writing emails to motivate employees more efficiently and at lower cost.

The core is criticism of executive compensation structures rather than an actual product. The site points to an average total compensation of $18.9 million for CEOs at U.S. S&P 500 companies, and says the pay ratio between CEOs and employees at large listed companies is 290 to 1. It also says CEO pay at big companies has jumped more than 1,000 percent over the past 40 years, while wage increases for employees who supported corporate growth have fallen far short.

The issue-raising also ties in with how companies have recently adopted AI. It says that across industries including technology, retail, media, logistics and finance, companies have cut middle managers and rank-and-file employees alongside AI rollouts, while the resources saved shift to building data centres and paying for agent-type AI licences, and executive pay is maintained or even rises.

The site also contrasts what AI does well with what frontline workers should handle. OverpAId cites tasks that are difficult for AI, including nurses detecting changes in patients’ conditions, engineers responding to system failures at dawn and teachers spotting subtle signs of abnormalities in the classroom. By contrast, it lists as things AI does well reading in meetings reports written by others, quietly approving decisions the team made three weeks earlier and raising one’s own pay regardless of performance, satirising the CEO role.

At the bottom of the site is a tool that calculates how much additional bonus per employee could be paid if a CEO is fired, based on CEO pay and headcount. Assuming 500 employees and a CEO with an annual salary of $22 million, the calculation shows a bonus of $43,990 per employee. OverpAId says AI can make decisions immediately, will not move to a rival and does not need private jets or luxury hotels.

At the very bottom, however, it specifies that OverpAId is not a real product. It says the website was made to satirise the imbalance between the value individual executives actually create and excessive pay, and the limits of the so-called trickle-down effect that suggests giving more rewards to the wealthy will let benefits flow downward.

Ultimately, the site is closer to an example that asks who is having their jobs replaced first by AI, and how the costs and benefits are distributed within organisations. With staff cuts and expanded AI investment happening at the same time, OverpAId takes direct aim at executive pay and corporate cost-cutting logic.