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The CEO chatbot era is coming

Mark Zuckerberg is testing an AI version of himself. But by delegating part of his role to a machine, he raises the question of what CEOs actually do.

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Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is helping to train and test an animated AI version of himself to interact with his employees.

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is helping to train and test an animated AI version of himself to interact with his employees.

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Andrew Hill

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Chief executives are on a constant quest for the grail of eternal omnipresence. Could artificial intelligence give it to them? Mr 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 has also written that the Facebook founder is building a separate AI agent to help him pull information from different layers of the company.

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