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Meta: AI Takeover Plan Fails [1]

['Chitown Kev', 'Sabrina Haake']

Date: 2026-08-30  

Sometimes one has to laugh, but this is a warning that the TechBros prefer AI to humans.

Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI. Here’s how it imploded. -Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/mark-zuckerberg-had-bold-plan-replace-meta-staff-with-ai-heres-how-it-imploded-2026-08-26 Archive file here: In queue.

In January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his top lieutenants gathered for their annual leadership retreat at his Hawaii compound. There they hatched a radical plan to reimagine work at the social-media giant in the age of artificial intelligence. Code-named Project OT – short for Organization Transformation – the plan envisioned an “AI native” future for the owner of Facebook and Instagram. AI would take over much of the daily work performed by thousands of human employees. Virtual workers would be overseen inside Meta by smaller, “talent-dense” cadres of human staffers, according to one internal planning document reviewed by Reuters and three people familiar with the project. In scenario-planning exercises, two of these people said, executives explored slashing the size of many teams across Meta by as much as 60%. Some employees would be offered roles in new units, while others would be laid off as part of a culling that one human-resources executive projected would be as big as or bigger than the company’s cuts of around 25% three years ago, according to another internal document.

If they are willing to replace their own employees at the drop of a hat, what about your employment when engulfed by AI? It’s all about the money, honey, and some generously think that the TechBros are going to share?

A sign of weakness

By then, Meta employees were in open revolt, convinced that the company’s AI transformation initiatives were partly aimed at replacing them. Internal data was also suggesting that autonomous AI “agent” technology at the heart of the strategy was failing to deliver hoped-for productivity gains. Some investors were questioning what Meta had to show for its gargantuan spending on AI.

Investors getting antsy?

Well, investors are the tap through which money flows, and AI seems to be the sewer through which it drains away.

It’s a fairly long article, so have a read.

Always bear in mind AI is dependent on data centers

For info:

Data Centers, Urban Heat, and AI Growth -Yale Edu

https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/data-centers-urban-heat-and-ai-growth

Is the environmental impact of data centers finally cutting through? -The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/19/is-the-environmental-impact-of-datacentres-finally-cutting-through

A Morning Muse

~A

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