Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI co-CEO as part of his continuing mission to free himself from the burden of human interaction

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Subscribe to our newsletter Mark Zuckerberg, the visionary who burnt tens of billions of dollars on a failed metaverse and is furnishing millions of the world’s sex pests with surveillance goggles, is working on removing the biggest hurdle standing between himself and the pursuit of even more of his excellent plans: Having to interact with his fellow man.Per Wall Street Journal reporting, Meta has been building an AI agent to help Zuckerberg perform his duties as Meta CEO. In the project’s current state, the agent is tasked with assisting Zuckerberg with information retrieval that would traditionally necessitate the horror of communicating with his lessers. (Image credit: Meta)While it remains to be seen whether or not Zuckerberg’s AI counterpart can offer better executive advice than ChatGPT—which led Krafton’s CEO into a costly and embarrassing legal spat—the project is part of Zuckerberg’s broader vision of ensuring AI is the basic medium through which Meta operates.Article continues below You may like Microsoft AI CEO curiously omits ‘Microsoft AI CEO’ from list of white collar jobs that will be replaceable by AI in next 18 months Meta bought Moltbook, an almost entirely AI-populated social media platform, for we don’t know how much—and we’re not completely sure why yet, either Meta lost $19.1 billion on VR last year despite the mother of all pivots to AI including plans for AI-generated gaming “We’re investing in AI-nati