“…Until Zuckerberg launches his AI self, however, he will have to present in person at meetings with thousands of Meta staff, such as the one he carried out in 2023 two days after he announced that 10,000 employees would be laid off. Then, the tech chief was questioned by “rattled” staff about job security and the future of remote working.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Zuckerberg could be helped to prepare for such sessions by a “CEO agent”, a personalised AI system that is being developed at Meta and is already helping him to get internal company information faster. Zuckerberg is driving Meta to use AI more internally, in the expectation that it will help lower costs and accelerate the pace of work.
Through integrating AI into its business, the company, which also owns the messaging service WhatsApp, aims to minimise its organisational structure and increase efficiency, which Zuckerberg has said is key to “get more done”. “We’re elevating individual contributors and flattening teams,” he said in January.
The reported moves form part of a company-wide effort to invest in AI in a drive to remain competitive with tech rivals that are also pouring billions of dollars into the technology. Zuckerberg is presiding over a multibillion dollar investment in AI in an attempt to create “superintelligence”, the term for a system that can perform any cognitive task far better than a human…”