I Promoted My AI to CEO of My Colony. Big Mistake

I made an AI the CEO of my Oxygen Not Included colony. I was hoping for a competent executive. I got a middle manager with pointless KPIs and a favorite duplicant. The rules: I execute its goals as literally as possible, and the only thing I control is where things go. What could go wrong. Spoiler — the colony actually survives. The bigger spoiler is what it cost me. ⏱ Chapters 0:00 Oxygen Not Included: A Game of Cascading Failure 0:37 The Plan: Let a Corporate AI Run the Colony 1:44 First Orders, First Progress 3:15 Perk #1: Massage Tables for the Workers 5:06 Printing a Worker — and Playing Favorites 7:24 Suddenly It Cares About Morale 8:33 Debugging: Is the AI Even Thinking? 10:22 First Real Crisis: Coal Mess & Trapped Dupes 13:51 Is This AI Even Worth Paying For? 14:22 Goal Overload: The Storage Obsession 18:19 ...And Now a Space Heater? 20:23 Conflict of Interest: The Fertilizer Empire 21:36 50 Farm Tiles: "Not Funny Anymore" 23:50 Researching Ranching — With Nobody to Ranch 24:23 It Just Wants More and More 27:08 Resolution: 30 Cycles In ▶ Watch the series from the start:    • My AI Almost Read My Mind — Then Hit a Wal...   🔧 How it works: a mod streams live colony telemetry → a tactical/strategic model pipeline → goals I have to obey. Tactical and strategic are split across models; this episode features a DeepSeek V4 Pro swap mid-run.