Thoughts on Whether an AI Agent Can Make You a Better CEO

The WSJ published a story yesterday that details Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to build an AI agent to be more effective as CEO.

The piece is light on details of what this agent does, other than surfacing information from inside his 78k-employee org. Most of the text describes broader efforts across Meta to get people using AI, including putting AI use as a category on their performance reviews.

If you know me, you know I think a lot about the job of the CEO. Lately it’s been impossible to not see AI as a major narrative thread in the story of how this role evolves.

A lot of CEOs and other execs aren’t using AI very much themselves though. They will issue mandates that their employees use it but then keep their own habits intact, or use AI in very cursory ways.

The narrative emerging is that CEOs proclaim AI to be the #1 concern for the future though mo…