CEOs are making AI avatars of themselves to enter meetings and talk with employees, but these digital execs are causing trouble for staff.
The rise of AI chatbots has been well-documented with influencers making digital versions of themselves for fans to talk with, and now CEOs are getting in on the action.
Some have started to use them to speak with employees when they don’t have time and are using their speeches, interviews, and meetings to train them.
There’s just one big problem: the chatbots keep making things up.
CEO chatbots can’t stop hallucinating
As reported by Futurism, startups like Personal AI, Delphi, and Tavus are trying to convince company executives to let them train their models and create doubles of themselves.
“It’s common for people across the company to have questions for the CEO, but he doesn’t have time to answer them all,” a senior advisor to footwear company Salomon CEO Guillaume Meyzenq explained.
However, like most AIs, they can be prone to make things up, something that Personal AI is trying to fix and working to “reduce the chatbot’s hallucinations.”
Essentially, these chatbots, while acting as the CEO, can give employees incorrect information. In one instance, an Axios reporter asked an AI version of Dara Ladjevardian, the co-founder and CEO of AI cloning platform Delphi, if the real Ladjevardian had access to the chat, it said “no.”
The rise of AI CEOs also has employees a bit anxious, especially amid fears that they could be replaced.
AI researcher Julie Carpenter said these chatbots are, “sort of widening that gap between executive privilege, technical privilege, and the precarity of laborers.”
“It could risk sending messages either to the public or to their employees that there is a lack of accountability at the very top,” she added.
While people may not like taking orders from a chatbot, they sure do like flirting with them. A study found that 40% of adults would date an AI chatbot, with 26% admitting that they’ve flirted with one.
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