Strategy

Tech CEOs Think AI Will Let Them Be Everywhere at Once

Meta's photorealistic Zuckerberg avatar, Klarna and Zoom's CEO doubles, and Jack Dorsey's plan to route 6,000+ Block employees through an AI-mediated layer reveal tech leaders treating synthetic executive proxies as organizational infrastructure.

Monday, April 20, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: WIRED AIBY sys://pipeline

Meta is developing a photorealistic 3D AI avatar of CEO Mark Zuckerberg trained on his public comments and mannerisms to interact with employees. Klarna and Zoom have similarly created AI doubles for their CEOs to deliver earnings remarks. Block CEO Jack Dorsey is pursuing an even more radical approach: using AI to flatten organizational hierarchy so all 6,000+ employees report directly to him through an AI-mediated layer.

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