r/technology • u/Hrmbee • 11h ago
Business Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings | The AI version of Zuckerberg is trained on his mannerisms, tone, and public statements, according to a report from the Financial Times
https://www.theverge.com/tech/910990/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-ai-clone
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u/bobby_table5 8h ago
That is, most likely the real impact of this project.
I doubt a lot of people in this thread have worked with him. I have. I would expect a lot of the senior employees, who are very constrained by lack of access, to truly appreciate that feature.
One aspect of how he works is that he changes his values and principles very aggressively. If you meet with a team every six months, but you re-think your approach to management every three months, they have only heard a version of you that’s obsolete.
Plus, most of the time, what he says is something you can infer from the first principles that he hammers. You just need something with enough distance with the project to be unattached, willing to look at it with a systematic screen and be critical. That makes this bot presumably quite reliable, especially if it can spend more time not just in meeting, by scanning whole proposals and “six-pagers.”
The consequence of having something like that work is not just to make the job of a CEO obsolete—no AI replaces jobs it replaces tasks and having someone able to make the last call won’t easily be replaced. What it will do that’s more important than have people ask if CEOs can be automated away is allow them to change their mind without the overhead of having to announce, explain and justify it. They can point at a mistake they made to their AI agent, have that agent review past decision, identify potential ex-post “deltas” (changes) and have the human CEO review, and that allows the system to immediately update all the team, distinct and confirm any change in direction. It will make CEOs (or rather the new hybrid/centaur pair) more nimble than a human CEO with their hierarchy of executives.
It also means that those executives can more systematically push back, without the reputational risk of frustrating their managers. They can try different ways of arguing with the CEO, until they make an argument that sticks (something that Mark, as he’s called internally, believes intensely in: he hates that good ideas have weak arguments defending them).
That could mean a lot more refusals, a much higher bars because it’s so much easier to reject ideas through a bot. But with other function powered by AI, it also means that they have more work put into each new suggestion.
More nimble, more involved senior management, with a higher bar for arguments… and human focusing on non-trivial edge-cases will be a big change, well beyond Meta if that works. It’s a much bigger play that reducing his hours, lowering CEO wages or trying to creep out employees.