Mark Zuckerberg is preparing Meta to make a full AI with more automated workers. It’s even building a personal AI agent designed to make executive-level decisions, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Don’t worry, he won’t set himself on fire. This is the fate of thousands who are viewed as interchangeable cogs from behind the glass of the C-suite.
Per WSJ reportZuck envisions a future where every Meta employee has an AI assistant agent working alongside them. He decided to launch a buddy system himself, and is working with an AI team to develop an agent that will help him get information faster by providing more visibility into what’s going on in his company.
Meta’s head feels there is too much redundancy and extra layers at the company of about 78,000 people, and according to the Journal, AI should reduce the need to pass a question through multiple people before arriving at an answer. Given the AI trend hallucinatory information or provide answers without a clear source to confirm its correctness, it will certainly not lead to unintended consequences.
While Zuk gets him an AI assistant to run the show, the rest of the company risks losing their jobs to AI instead of merging with an autonomous partner. This was reported by Reuters Last week, Meta said it plans to cut 20% of its workforce in the coming weeks — the latest in a series of significant layoffs that have plagued the company in recent years driven by failed initiatives to pour money into future-focused efforts that haven’t worked out (I’m looking at you, Metaverse).
The pending and undated layoffs appear to be related to AI, according to the report. In a way, they definitely will. Meta has spent a ton on AI investments in recent years and plans to spend another $135 billion on infrastructure. for CNBC. It now appears to be cutting costs elsewhere (read: wages) to offset the huge amount being spent on staying competitive in AI. There would be no way to save on wages Offers $100 million pay packages To the AI experts to get them away from the rivals, but maybe an AI agent can whisper it in Mark’s ear and get him to listen.
All of Meta’s AI efforts have so far been a mess reconstruction efforts trying to figure out why anyone cares about Meta AI. He hasn’t been very lucky so far. If nothing else, Zuckerberg’s AI agent CEO will find someone other than himself to blame for why the next reorganization failed, so at least he’ll be good for something.
