Anxieties about an AI-driven future have crept into almost every corner of the workplace. From junior staff worried about automation to managers fearing irrelevant, no one feels completely safe.
Even CEOs are not immune. Almost three-quarters say they are afraid to lose their jobs if they can't provide business results with AI.
But David Rosier is not one of them. MasterClass founder and CEO believes that AI is reshaping how he works every day, not as a threat, but as an accelerator.
“If you don't use AI and are CEO, what are you doing?” Roger said. luck. “You're holding yourself back. You say, 'I just want to be as productive as possible.'
On his count, being a “heavy user” of technology made him extremely efficient and regained his entire work day equivalent.
MasterClass CEO uses eight separate AI tools
With so many different AI tools on the market, it is impossible to become a Maximizer using just one. Instead, Rogier's “AI CEO Stack” consists of half a dozen LLMSs.
Rogier's main AI helper is a custom version of ChatGPT named “Davidify” that integrates all the notes. If he needs to draft an email or a speech, all he has to do is encourage it with a few bullet points, and it writes it in his style.
His AI stack also includes:
- gamma: “Make all my hand decks faster and cleaner”
- make.com + todoist + chatgpt: “Automatically automate your to-do list every night. No more staring at 50 tasks or trying to prioritize them.”
- Notebooklm: “Looking and wanting to read all the YouTube talks and academic papers, it's a 15-minute podcast for a walk.”
- Adorable“Fast product mockups lead to much faster feedback loops.”
- By phone: “Question the questions of Chris Voss and Mark Cuba and don't worry about actually stealing them.”
- Claude Project: “It's full of customer demographics. Please give us real-time feedback on new ideas.”
- Sun: “Amazing? The best custom work (and training) playlist.”
How CEOs embrace AI in the workplace
Rozier was not alone in the AI embrace. CEOs should look at the daily use of AI as table stakes to stay competitive, especially in the tech sector.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says that the GPT-5 within Microsoft's 365 Copilot “has become part of my everyday workflow and has added a new layer of intelligence that spans all apps.” In fact, billionaires use generation techniques to generate meeting overviews, project updates, productivity monitoring, and more.
Similarly, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang uses AI as both a learning and research tool, mostly using Perplexity and ChatGpt.
“I'll use it [AI] Hyun said every day as a tutor at the Milken Institute's global conference earlier this year.
Other tech leaders are moving further into using AI. CEOs such as Zoom's Eric Yuan and Klarna's Sebastian Siemiatkowski have appeared in recent revenue calls using video replicas generated by AI that provide scripted statements in voices and likenesses. And Klarna even opened the “AI CEO Hotline” 24/7. This leads customer inequality into the field 24 hours a day, and responds in conversational style in both English and Swedish by Siemiatkowski.
With AI only improving over time, these CEOs expect employees to minimize examples of how to integrate technology across their work, and do the same.
