Klarna used an AI avatar of its CEO to deliver earnings, it said
Sebastian Siemiatkowski leans entirely in the idea that his buy-now-payer, IPO-related startup Klarna is an AI company. When Klarna delivered updated quarterly profit on Monday, it was his AI Avatar (shown above) who presented the highlights, According to the YouTube video of the company.
Apart from the recognition of Ai Siemiatkowski, it was not clear that this was AI. There were only a few subtle signs: Ai Siemiatkowski didn’t blink as much as most people. The voice synchronization was good, but not perfect. The AI also wore a brown jacket that looked a lot like that of A widely scattered company photo From his human self (although the shirt was different).
Klarna, which is ready to debut as a listed company, used the updated financial data to praise AI as a floating factor for touching 100 million users. It has assigned its use of AI for a fourth consecutive profitable quarter, which explains that “his workforce with ~ 40%streamlined”, the company said in his blog postTo increase income per employee to almost $ 1 million.
Human Siemiatkowski Specified to CNBC That “the company has shrunk from around 5,000 to now nearly 3,000 employees.”
He is not the first CEO who enjoys the idea of an AI who replaces a CEO. AI Sales Agent Startup Artisan, known for its viral advertising campaign “Stop Hiring Humans”, posted a video from April Fool of his CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack that was fired and replaced by an AI CEO.
But perhaps the idea of AIS that replaces CEOs is not a total joke. Although it is certainly true that some CEOs – especially at startups – get their hands dirty coding functions or cold -call -prospects, are the most important tasks of a CEO to set strategy, to make decisions and take responsibility for those decisions.
Who is better than an AI built on a SATA reasoning model to digest large samples of company data, to study Gobs of a successful business strategy and use that to make decisions? Research was in Harvard Business Review last year that a AI could usually perform better than human CEOsBased on a model with GPT-4O.
However, the AI CEO was also quickly fired by the virtual administration of the study. This is because it responded poorly to “Black Swan events, such as market deposits during the COVID-19 Pandemie,” the researchers thought. Still, as AI proposers would like to indicate, these are early days. Future AI -CEOs may also excel in that.
Klarna did not immediately respond to a request for further comments.
