[HN Gopher] Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him ...
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       Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be CEO
        
       Author : samaysharma
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2026-03-23 16:04 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | mwkaufma wrote:
       | When your whole job is "giving notes", being flattered, and
       | imagining your workers as cogs, prompting a chatbot probably does
       | feel like "work."
        
         | sudoshred wrote:
         | You missed the killer feature, even more diffusion of
         | responsibility.
        
         | tamimio wrote:
         | And lobbying to implement age verification.
        
           | janderson215 wrote:
           | Assuming age verification should be implemented, do you think
           | the application layer is the right place to do that, or would
           | the OS layer make more sense?
        
             | CamperBob2 wrote:
             | The parental layer is the right place to do that.
        
       | codegodnvn wrote:
       | HAHA
        
       | tinfoilcondom wrote:
       | Now AI can be just like Zuck and come up with 0 original ideas
       | that have any value.
       | 
       | Facebook copied MySpace and bought Instagram (with FB Camera
       | losing to them).
       | 
       | Their only original idea was Metaverse - an FoA (flop-on-
       | arrival).
       | 
       | They even dropped the ball on AI, something they should have had
       | a massive advantage at with their ad profiles and social media
       | empire.
        
         | garbawarb wrote:
         | Can you name some companies whose products are built on
         | original ideas?
        
           | butlike wrote:
           | To be fair, General Motors is built off of the idea of the
           | wheel, which I believe is an original idea
        
             | dessimus wrote:
             | By that logic, the Taggart Baking Co. should have been one
             | of the richest companies ever, since everyone compares
             | their product to it as the greatest thing since.
        
             | sunrunner wrote:
             | I'm not so sure, their 'original' wheel was just a
             | refinement to the round boulders that already existed on
             | the planet and the mechanical advantages naturally existing
             | in that form.
        
         | bko wrote:
         | > Build one of most valuable companies in history and grow to
         | be one of youngest billionaires
         | 
         | > tinfoilcondom (account created 5 min ago): dude has no talent
         | or original ideas
         | 
         | I love this platform
        
           | mandeepj wrote:
           | > grow to be one of youngest billionaires
           | 
           | Are you equating intelligence with networth? :-)
           | 
           | I think it's more like this
           | https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Billionaires-Founding-
           | Face...
        
             | 0xy wrote:
             | IQ is highly correlated with both income and wealth so it
             | seems like a fair comment. Of course not all billionaires
             | have a high IQ, but far more billionaires do than your
             | average person.
        
               | Natfan wrote:
               | survivorship bias.
               | 
               | there is absolutely nothing stopping a poor child in
               | sierra leone from becoming the next einstein, outside of
               | access to things that should be considered mandatory for
               | human life.
        
         | cmdrk wrote:
         | > Their only original idea was Metaverse
         | 
         | surely you must be joking.
        
       | seydor wrote:
       | Now that's a project that i support, after the fiasco of
       | metaverse.
       | 
       | If there could be a CEO-as-AI-service , we will not have to put
       | up with all their BS content .
        
         | scotty79 wrote:
         | I think models from one year ago with proper harness should be
         | easily beating humans at this task on average. Human CEOs
         | decisions are worse than random chance.
        
       | dude250711 wrote:
       | Literally any modern LLM + Kagi Translate to LinkedIn would
       | immediately get you to above average CEO level.
       | 
       | His courage to go the remaining way is commendable.
        
       | rchaud wrote:
       | Sources familiar with the matter told the WSJ that unlike Horizon
       | Worlds, this idea has legs. /s
        
       | ecshafer wrote:
       | Should I spend $70B on something no one wants?
       | 
       | See what the AI says.
        
       | stevenalowe wrote:
       | He needs one to help with ethics, not administration
        
         | follie wrote:
         | If Asimov designed it he wouldn't be that interested.
        
       | metalman wrote:
       | maybe someone can hack his AI and get it to sweet talk him into
       | the nessesity of "joining" his other AI self in order to become
       | god
        
       | Cheyana wrote:
       | ChatGPT, how do I appear more human?
        
       | myguysi wrote:
       | Oh that's what they mean by "subagents", now I get it.
        
       | bediger4000 wrote:
       | What happens when Zuck has spent 3 months in deep conversation,
       | deep deep mental communion, with his "AI" and returns from the
       | metaphorical mountain top with a new holy book, the kind that
       | we've seen folks link to several times. Instant new cult?
        
       | Lapsa wrote:
       | he should try installing movie maker
        
       | bitwize wrote:
       | You know what? Good. Any one-shotted CEO who thinks this is the
       | future and we MUST adopt it or else, should be first in line.
       | Before anyone else in the org.
        
       | instig007 wrote:
       | He had better spend $250k worth of tokens on it
        
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