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1001 Uber Employees Have Built an AI Clone of Their CEO To Practice Presentations Before the Real Thing

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msmash @ Slashdot · 02/26/2026 01:01 EDT

Uber Employees Have Built an AI Clone of Their CEO To Practice Presentations Before the Real Thing

An anonymous reader shares a report: Some Uber employees have built an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi -- internally dubbed "Dara AI" -- and have been using it to rehearse and fine-tune presentations before delivering them to the actual Khosrowshahi, he revealed on a recent podcast.

Khosrowshahi said a team member told him that some teams "make the presentation to the Dara AI as a prep for making a presentation to me," and that the bot helps them adjust their slides and sharpen their delivery. Asked by.

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