Fordel StudiosUber engineers built an AI version of their boss
What Happened
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s employees have gone all in on AI, going so far as to build a chatbot of him that they use to practice their pitches.
Our Take
Honestly, building an AI version of your CEO for pitch practice is either genius or the most dystopian thing I've heard. But it works—rehearsal against a knowledgeable opponent beats talking to yourself.
The wild part? Nobody's freaking out about it. People are just using it to get better. That's a tonal shift worth noticing: AI-as-tool is so normalized inside orgs now that it doesn't even register as weird.
What To Do
Try this internally: record pitches, feed them to Claude with 'critique like a skeptical investor'—cheaper than hiring a coach.
Builder's Brief
What Skeptics Say
A CEO chatbot trained on public statements teaches pitch-rehearsal against a sanitized persona, optimizing for approval signaling rather than substantive business reasoning—a productivity theater exercise.
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