Chief executives are on a constant quest for the grail of eternal omnipresence. Could artificial intelligence give it to them? Mark Zuckerberg seems to think so.
The Meta chief executive, occasionally lampooned for his robotic stage presence, is helping to train and test an animated AI version of himself to interact with his employees, the Financial Times has reported. The Wall Street Journal also has written that the Facebook founder is building a separate AI agent to help him pull information from different layers of the company. As one FT reader commented: “When is Meta going to build a human version of Mark Zuckerberg?”
Other corporate leaders will be watching the outcome of these trials avidly, though. Many think their ability to realise their grand strategies is limited only by hours in the day. It is why personal productivity is an executive obsession. It is why lots of executives boast that they subsist on tiny sips of sleep, in the mistaken belief that increasing their waking hours will improve their output. In this nonstop effort to manage time more efficiently, the needy employee seeking feedback can be a nuisance.