Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI CEO. Will He Lay Himself Off?

Mark Zuckerberg is preparing Meta for a full-on AI makeover with more automated workers. He’s even building a personal AI agent designed to make executive-level decisions, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Don’t worry, though, he’s not going to fire himself. That’s a fate reserved for the thousands of people viewed as replaceable cogs from behind the C-suite glass. Per WSJ’s report, Zuck imagines a future in which every Meta employee has an AI agent assistant working alongside them. He’s decided to start the buddy system with himself and is working with his AI team to develop an agent that will help him get information faster by providing more of an overview of what is happening across his company. Meta’s head seems to feel like there is too much redundancy and extra layers across the company of about 78,000 people, and, according to the Journal, the AI is supposed to cut down on the need to have a question go through multiple people before arriving at an answer. Given AI’s tendency to hallucinate information or provide answers without clear sourcing to confirm its accuracy, this surely won’t have unintended consequences. While Zuck is getting an AI assistant to h