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Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings 91

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According to the Financial Times, Meta is developing an AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg that could interact with employees using his voice, image, mannerisms, and public statements, "so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it." The Verge reports: Meta may start allowing creators to make AI avatars of themselves if the experiment with Zuckerberg succeeds, according to the Financial Times. [...] Zuckerberg is involved in training the AI avatar, the Financial Times reports, and has also started spending five to 10 hours per week coding on Meta's other AI projects and participating in technical reviews.
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings

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  • dumb fucks (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Thud457 ( 234763 ) on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:03PM (#66091816) Homepage Journal

    "What do you mean people like the AI more than me?!!!"

    • Re:dumb fucks (Score:4, Funny)

      by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 ) on Monday April 13, 2026 @04:04PM (#66092236)

      "What do you mean people like the AI more than me?!!!"

      Or the robot he usually sends out. Can't that just sit in on the meetings? Seems like it fools Congress. :-)

    • I was thinking it sounded dumb except... this is one of the rare cases where the AI clone will actually be more human than the original. There's just not that much training data on ill fitting skin suits over the howling void.

  • Should you have input on your own clone? I'm sure we all question ourselves from time to time, "I don't say that", "I don't act like that", "I don't sound like that", etc when in reality we do. The need to feel accepted and present a specific image might hinder the actual usefulness of said clone mimicking yourself.

    • A narcissistic sociopath like Zuck will certainly define how his AI avatar sounds and acts, and no one will tell him otherwise.

      It's like Trump - from his comments, it's quite obvious he doesn't think he looks like the overweight 80-year-old man with thinning hair and crepe-y skin that we all see.

  • And what about those Senate hearings ... (Score:4, Funny)

    by drnb ( 2434720 ) on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:06PM (#66091820)
    An AI Clone might be more informative in those Senate hearings.
    • dammit I didn't see your post. I literally posted with the exact same tagline. lol. Sorry about that.

  • because I can't wait to see how this goes over. Zuck has to be so disconnected from reality, and hasn't learned from the metaverse VR failure. There is a reason why people want to meet in person, and it's not to meet an AI a personality, it's not you. But you have to keep the investors pumping the money into meta, so keep rolling the same thing out with a different name. Also, would you want an LLM making decisions for you?

    • My money is that the AI will says the quiet things out loud and will insist that it is the REAL MZ.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by DrXym ( 126579 )
      Metaverse was such a predictable failure that there is no way anyone with a creative or gaming head on their body would have shat out what Meta produced. It is the product of market studies, and demographics, and committees with final say by Zuckerberg. Something so boring, and without reason to exist, that people who Horizons rarely ever went back. They didn't even need to spend billions to know it was a terrible idea because Sony had already proven the point with Playstation Home which was arguably better

  • Seems plausible. (Score:3)

    by fuzzyfuzzyfungus ( 1223518 ) on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:09PM (#66091830) Journal
    Given how tightly a lot of meetings are really wrapped up in power (all the ones that could have been an email but are about who you an force to show up and all the ones that could have been an email but are about cutting someone out of the loop in a visible way) it tracks that the desire to be in your meeting while skipping your meeting would come from the top; probably accompanied by some questionable theories about how your management is so valuable that even a mechanized distillation of it will better the minions exposed to it.

  • "Connected".... right... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Junta ( 36770 ) on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:09PM (#66091832)

    "so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it."

    If they believe this, then they have no understanding whatsoever what 'connected' means in a vaguely human context.

    Of course, if you asked me if there was a single human on earth that current GenAI could imitate flawlessly, it would be Zuckerberg.

    • The real purpose might be deniability. If Human Zuckerberg is an ass (which probably happens pretty regularly) or suggests something legally questionable (which probably sometimes happens) or suggests something unethical (which I'm sure sometimes happens) then it gets pinned back on him. But if the AI does any of that and there's pushback then meat-Zuckerberg can go and blame the AI.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by DrXym ( 126579 )
      I also suspect that "interacting" with this AI is a surefire way for an employee to get flagged for a follow-up conversation with their manager or HR.

  • Off to See the Wizard (Score:5, Insightful)

    by TwistedGreen ( 80055 ) on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:15PM (#66091846)

    I am Zuck the great and powerful! Who are you?

    Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! Er, wait a minute, there's nobody there...

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by shanen ( 462549 )

      Mod parent funny, though the story already produced a good harvest of humor.

      Coincidentally I'm currently reading Facebook by Steven Levy. Quite informative and insightful, and triggers many strange thoughts... One related to this story in the form of some leftover questions:

      Will I live long enough to meet an ASI?
      What will I ask it?
      What kind of answers will it give me?
      Will it say anything nice to me or just file me with the rest of the human garbage?

      Funny thoughts about the last question if it wants to be

  • One use case (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:15PM (#66091848)

    Ok they found one use case where the AI is going to be better than the real thing, but they're going to need more than that to sell AI credits to the average person.

  • Good founders actually meet with workers (Score:5, Insightful)

    by drnb ( 2434720 ) on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:19PM (#66091858)

    so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it

    I once worked at a startup that made it big. I once had to update some 10 year old code where the comments said, this code is tricky, do not modify it without talking to so-and-so. So-and-so was now the CEO. So I fired off an email to the CEO asking what I should be careful about. 45 minutes later the CEO is pulling up a chair in my office and we proceed to pair program for the next three hours. He's enjoying it, enjoying his brief escape from all the high level management BS that is his normal day.

    If you look at history. Some of the most famous CEOs, even after their companies became industry leaders, would routinely go down to the shop floors and talk to the workers and shop foreman to see how things were going. To find out if they had everything they needed, if the processes were good, etc. Skipping all the layers of ass kissers between CEOs and workers, and getting to the truth directly.

    Similarly, some of the most famous generals were notorious for not being in their command center, and being found sitting in some foxhole talking to a corporal or sergeant.

    The fact that Zuckerberg thinks an AI avatar is a way to connect just shows that investor efforts to educate him to be a good manager have completely failed.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Holi ( 250190 )

      "Similarly, some of the most famous generals were notorious for not being in their command center, and being found sitting in some foxhole talking to a corporal or sergeant."

      Which is why most armies got the butts kicked by the Germans, and why the Germans got trounced by the US.
      The more you need to direct the troops with orders, the less flexible they are.

    • Those absolutely sound like the story of a person who was "in the trenches" that gets put in control. Contrast that with some of these CEO's who seem to make "being a CEO' their professional job.

    • Some of the most famous CEOs, even after their companies became industry leaders, would routinely go down to the shop floors and talk to the workers and shop foreman to see how things were going.

      Steve Jobs reportedly did that.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by havana9 ( 101033 )
      Vittorio Ghidella was for some time CEO of the Fiat Automobile division. He started in the shop floors for QA and walked up the stairs to the higher ranks. He was famous for test driving early car prototypes and was sometime seen in Turin waiting for a tow truck because the car had some problem. Unfortunately he had strong disagreements with Cesare Romiti probably for the idea to make a joint Venture with Ford and was let go.

  • He's going to say the same things in internal meetings as he says publicly? Really?

  • Developers, developers, developers, developers!!! Yeahaw:)):!;!(&5@5@4&!4!!!!!!!!

  • How on earth does he think people will feel more connected to him, talking to a digital simulacrum? Fundamentally, how does someone who made himself a billionaire on the back of our social connections to each other not know what it is human beings want from connection?

  • The jokes just write themselves (Score:5, Funny)

    by hdyoung ( 5182939 ) on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:22PM (#66091874)
    "Mark is way more personable and likable nowadays and I can't figure out why"

  • At least according to the summary, it seems that the AI Zuck is just a standin for the meetings he would never attend otherwise.

  • legs (Score:1)

    by stx23 ( 14942 )

    that's it, that's the post

  • Feel more connected (Score:5, Funny)

    by Valgrus Thunderaxe ( 8769977 ) on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:23PM (#66091882)
    Why would anyone want to feel more connected to Mark Zuckerberg? The article failed to articulate that.

  • It explains a lot about why our society is the way it is

  • The guy is ash h a tool. (Rich, of course. But still a tool)

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by boxless ( 35756 )

      (Who is the tool now with my silly autocorrect mistake? Ha. God keeping me grounded, I guess. )

  • I thought he did that already years ago and not only for meetings.

  • of thousands of Meta associated being let go, replaced by their own avatars.

  • Meta already wants to provides AI bots so your dead relatives can sell you things, which is comparably worse

    • Wow. That is insane but I believe its in the works already. I thought they crossed the line when my dead pets started begging for virtual kibble.

  • Turing test (Score:4, Interesting)

    by david.emery ( 127135 ) on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:45PM (#66091946)

    Would -you- be able to distinguish the actual Mark Zuckerberg from an AI simulacrum?

  • Wait . . . (Score:5, Funny)

    by umopapisdn69 ( 6522384 ) on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:55PM (#66091970)

    What? He's not?

    I thought that was an AI bot all along!

  • More connected? I can't think of anything more alienating.

  • Copy & paste, right? I mean, really, it's trivial to close a bot.

  • This is an astounding lack of grasp of how humans interact from the owner of the biggest social network. I really want to know how that can happen. Can I have his brain and dissect it?

  • If CEOs can be replaced by AIs then they should be the first to be laid off. They make the most money, which means that they represent the biggest cost cutting opportunities.

  • So the current production version of Mark Zuckerberg is building a newer version with a more intuitive human interface, I get it.

  • being such a disconnected person that you thought making an AI clone would be a BETTER representation of you i would think the AI would be smart enough to tell him that's not a smart move

  • Having an AI avatar take meetings for you sounds like a good way to ensure plausible deniability.

    "I do not recall ever personally directing subordinate X to do action Y."

    What are the chances this has factored into his thought process?

  • Warhammer 40,000 enjoyers will appreciate the cynicism.

  • Quite telling (Score:3, Insightful)

    by rickrickles ( 10431830 ) on Monday April 13, 2026 @02:36PM (#66092080)
    It is quite telling that billionaire CEOs want to do even LESS work and receive more compensation. Zuck is openly expressing that he can be replaced by an AI, but then he still wants to receive all the monies. This is not a luxury extended to the average person. An AI generated to replace the average person would results in termination. If Zuck wants to go down this road, he should be laid off and put the AI in charge.

  • Sure (Score:2)

    by tsqr ( 808554 )

    Nothing engenders a feeling of connecting with another human quite like knowing there's a significant probability that you're really interacting with a bot.

  • In the not so distant future, you will rarely interact with colleagues. In a business context, you will have a digital clone, an agent that talks to the agent of your colleague. Your digital clone will act for you on your behalf when you are offline or even when you have left the company. This allows for immediate feedback in asynchronous communication like emailing or chatting. Also people are less reluctant to ask dumb questions to an AI. OTOH for people managing hundreds to thousands of other people its

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by shess ( 31691 )

      A large proportion of existing meetings aren't really necessary, and yet we have them. Often you're only having the meeting because someone in a position of power over you requires it of you. In many cases because they simply couldn't be bothered to simply review the information available to them, so instead they optimize their time by requiring everyone else to update them every week forever. Why would they stop requiring this farce just because there is a different way to package discussion?

      Non-meeting

  • Hey I wouldn't be complaining, I would see this as a great opportunity to jailbreak the boss and get myself a raise.

  • "so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it"
    This kind of Founder Worship is surreal, although it does exist to a large degree in cults. This goes beyond putting statues and busts of Zuck in all the offices.
    He wants to be the first immortal founder.
    "has also started spending five to 10 hours per week coding"
    oh come on now. Not even coders spend that much time coding any more. Not if we want to keep our jobs!

  • I'd just start asking real business/job questions and then publishing all the stupid wrong answers it spews.

    Why would anyone in management set themselves up like this?

  • I'm surprised it got down this far without someone saying "Didn't they already do this?" [youtu.be]

  • Anything to avoid talking to a living npc. Robots have more personality...

  • Seriously, what could make you feel more "connected" to your CEO than an AI bot? Would you even be able to tell the difference?

    This points to a leader that doesn't want to deal with the people under him and really doesn't care what those people think.

  • is that Zuck is not already some AI avatar...
  • "Meta Research is now recommending that meta-Zuck be given signature authority in management decisions, this following an analysis that showed, surprisingly, that meta-Zuck is not only better-regarded than his original, but is known for actually completely reading and considering the reports he's given." "Staff are now reporting that they've had zero incidents stemming from a random wild hare that Zuck was known for chasing, and that project prioritization discussions are much more consistent." "At least w
  • If the AI clone is good enough to be in meetings, why not just replace the Zuck completely? Sell the savings in stock payouts and other compensation to the shareholders and watch them kick him out.

  • It will be fascinating to see how the CEOs build their digital avatar agent thingies to do their work for them. They will be instructed to do what the CEO _thinks_ he does, rather than what he _actually_ does. Fun times for onlookers as the behaviours diverge.

  • Surely if the CEO can't be bothered to show up for meetings then he ought not be paid so much?

  • He *can* go f___ himself, at last.

  • Simply select the options which introduce the most harm alongside an automated text paragraph admitting no guilt for all the harm introduced.

  • Proof that a CEO has no original ideas left, and instead, is counting on filtering regurgitated Internet postings...

  • will have the feature "Insta-fire for gross misconduct" regardless of whether or not real gross misconduct occurs/

    Firing someone for gross misconduct is the "capital punishment" of firing someone. You are basically denied unemployment benefits, and not many companies will touch you if they find out.

  • In 2023, Meta had a mandatory return-to-office mandate. Now Zuck gets an AI clone to handle his own "interactions" activity.

    Do you suppose rank-and-file employees can start working remotely again, maybe with AI clones to maintain sufficient "live" interaction? I mean, if it's good enough for the CEO...

  • If he just left a potato at his desk would anyone notice any difference?

  • Zuck is really inspiring and having his AI shadow will rally the troops. I wonder if he also speaks parceltongue.

  • Good (Score:2)

    by ledow ( 319597 )

    If he thinks he can, then he should.

    Because then we can just ignore him, put an unpaid AI in his place.

    Let's do this to ALL the billionaires.

  • It would be a shame if Mark Zuckerberg's AI clone sold Meta for $1

  • Wonder if it would still be a dick ?

  • If they fired him, and kept the clone.

  • Seeing him "perform" in public it seems that he has already adopted an AI persona.
    A "real" AI will probably be an improvement.

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