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Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
Key takeaways
- Replacing people with AI doesn t seem to be that easy to do, if Meta can be seen as an example.
- Reuters reports that at an internal town hall Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that the pace of AI agent development had not accelerated in the way as executives had previously expected them to.
- During this week s meeting, Zuckerberg apparently commented on these job cuts — noting that they were not as clean as they should have been.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Replacing people with AI doesn t seem to be that easy to do, if Meta can be seen as an example.
Reuters reports that at an internal town hall Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that the pace of AI agent development had not accelerated in the way as executives had previously expected them to.
Earlier this year, Meta laid off some 8,000 employees — approximately 10 percent of its corporate workforce — and reassigned another 7,000 to various AI groups, including one called Agent Transformation, Bloomberg reported.
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