yahoo news | Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI co-CEO as part of his continuing mission to...

Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta founder who spent billions on a failed metaverse, is now turning to artificial intelligence to eliminate the one task he still dislikes most: interacting with other people. According to reporting from The Wall Street Journal, Meta is developing an AI “co‑CEO” that will handle information‑retrieval and other routine duties that would otherwise require the CEO to speak with his staff. The internal agent is being built as part of Zuckerberg’s broader vision of making AI the primary medium through which Meta operates, effectively giving the billionaire a digital surrogate for everyday decision‑making.

During Meta’s January earnings call, Zuckerberg said the company is “investing in AI‑native tooling so individuals at Meta can get more done, elevating individual contributors and flattening teams.” To support this, Meta has created a new AI engineering division where up to 50 employees report to a single manager, under the assumption that a swarm of AI agents will keep the organization from devolving into chaos. Employees are already using a suite of internal tools such as “My Claw,” which can communicate with coworkers and reference employee files, and “Second Brain,” an AI‑powered chief‑of‑staff that parses project documentation and keeps track of work‑streams.

The AI‑first strategy extends to Meta’s acquisitions, most recently the purchase of Moltbook—an almost entirely AI‑populated social‑media platform whose founders were brought on board. Within Meta’s internal messaging system, AI agents now have a dedicated group where they can interact with one another, effectively creating an AI‑only social network. As the company leans further into automation, reports indicate that Meta may cut up to 20 % of its human workforce, replacing those roles with the very agents it is designing to reduce the need for human-to‑human communication.

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