Klarna used an AI avatar of its CEO to deliver earnings, it said

Sebastian Simiatkovsky is all in this concept that his purchase-salary, IPO-closed startup Clarna is an AI company. When Clarsa updated quarterly earnings on Monday, it was his AI Avatar (illustrated above) which presented the highlights, According to the company’s YouTube videoThe

Except for the admission of AI Simiatkovsky, it was not clear that it was AI. There were a few subtle signs: AI Simiaatkovsky did not flash like most people. The voice sink was good, but not perfect. AI also wore a brown jacket that looks a lot to see a lot A widely publicized corporate photo About her human self (though the shirt was different).

Clear, Which is being prepared for debut as a government agencyAII was using updated finances to tout AI as a driving factor to hit 100 million users. It has credited the use of AI for the fourth profitable quarter, explaining that it “has stirred its staff forces by 40%”, the company Its blog says in the postDriving up Employee per income is about $ 1 millionThe

Human Simiatkovsky Has been specified in CNBC It is “the company has shrunk about 3,000 employees from around 5,000.”

He is not the first CEO to have fun with the concept of replacement of a CEO. AI Sales Agent Startup Artisan, It is known to promote the viral “Hurring Humanus” ad promotion, April Posted Flower Video CEO Jasper Carmichael-Jack is being dismissed and replaced Including an AI CEO.

However, the idea of ​​replacing AIS CEOs is not a total joke. Although it is certainly true that some CEOs – especially in startups – get the potential of dirty coding features or cooling calling, to determine the main tasks of a CEO, decide and be responsible for those decisions.

Who is better than AI to digest company data, study the gobs of successful business strategies and to decide it to decide? In fact, a study published in the Harvard Business Review last year showed that a AI, in most cases the human CEO can be overcomeBased on a model using GPT -4O.

However, the AI ​​CEO was quickly dismissed by the virtual board of study. This is because it is the bad reaction of the “black swan events such as the Covid -19 pandemic collapses in the market”, researchers have discovered. Nevertheless, as AI advocates like to mention, these are the first day. Future AI CEOs can also learn to achieve it.

Clarsa did not immediately respond to any request for further comments.