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Well, directly managing all your employees is the new hot trend and how else are you gonna do it?
Sounds like a shareholder lawsuit coming in 3, 2, 1.
These people are certifiable and have too much money to misallocate on nonsense. This is like Gavin Belson's holographic avatar (which of course did not work).
Seeing Zuck's "swag" makeover, down to the gold chain and Justin Timberlake curly coiff, I'd say the analogy should be Russ Hanneman's 100-foot Coachella hologram.
How will a machine ever replace his famous warmth or empathy?
Actually it shouldn't be too hard, just a cardboard cutout with a pullstring which, when pulled, intones "we're really sorry about this and it will never happen again, I promise".
They're going to be stuck in the uncanny valley where you feel like you can actually trust what the machine says.
Well, I've said for a while that CEOs are probably easier to replace with LLMs than programmers. Zuck agrees?!
For artificial intelligence to replace oneself, it would need a digital copy of one's way of thinking. I believe this is impossible to implement with current AI.
if you invented mark zuckerberg, you'd have invented mark zuckerberg
I've never seen him as honest. Whatever you think of individual incidents (was Cambridge Analytica a real scandal politically or just a data scandal? - or whatever) he's just... not a... well, he's a "careless person" (https://www.amazon.com/Careless-People-Cautionary-Power-Idea...) Facebook's entire history is them either changing privacy on post settings, or changing TOS (rug pulling) or people not being able to either see each others posts (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32826437) or not being able to contact each other (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090712)
As the CEO a much easier solution would be to just learn to delegate more and refuse more meetings.
This is extraordinary.

The FT piece says "They added that the character was being trained on the billionaire’s mannerisms, tone and publicly available statements, as well as his own recent thinking on company strategies, so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it."

Surely the more likely outcome is that employees feel less connected to "the founder" because they know that there's a high chance they are simply talking to an AI clone?

This sounds like a Sheldon plotline from The Big Bang Theory.
Imagine all the salary they'll save!
So either the AI clone will make different decisions; or it will also replace itself with an AI clone...
might be too robotic for the AI!
I can understand the appeal; being able to be "present" without the time cost can mean (possibly significantly more) presence at the same cost. This could be very attractive especially to those managing personal relations, like sales representatives.

But I'm surprised that the risks seem to be so underestimated.

Once this clone exists, what happens if it gets out into the wild? Imagine everyone having full access do what is effectively a digital model of your personality. Imagine your competition putting your own model to use against you.

And the better the approximation of this model, the worse the damage to yourself.

Wait!! He's not ALREADY a robot?
Imagine if this becomes popular. I'm sure CEOs will still be able to justify their massive salaries.
who's going to be the first to try and prompt inject their boss
Note: obly do this when you’re in control of the board
There was an old Soviet cartoon about a child who found a box containing two magical servants and immediately asked them for ice cream and sweets. Well, since the servants "do everything for you", the first servant fetched the sweets for him, and the second one ate them for him. I've often thought about this cartoon since the AI thing started.
Poor AI. Isn't that software abuse, sort of? If I were an AI I would not want to represent certain folks.