Uber engineers created an AI version of their boss

Consumers probably think of Uber as a ride-hailing and food delivery company. But in the eyes of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber is essentially a giant with engineers who are “the creators of the company.” In fact, Uber engineers have gone so far as to replace Khosrowshahi with a chatbot to ask questions in preparation for meetings with top brass.

That’s according to an interview Khosrowshahi gave this week on Steven Bartlett’s podcast, The CEO’s diary.

“One of my members told me that some groups have developed Dara AI, you know, so they will show it to Dara AI as a preparation to explain to me,” Khosrowshahi. he said on the podcast. “Because you can think, like, you know, by the time something comes to me, there’s going to be preparations and the slide deck assembly is done. So they have Dara AI to do their preparations.”

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About 90% of Uber’s software engineers are using AI in their work, Khosrowshahi said, while about 30% are “power users” of AI tools, considering the company’s architecture.

“They’re making the bricks that go into the system, and they’re the architects who think about how the system should be,” he said.

Khosrowshahi added: “It’s changing their productivity in a way I’ve never seen before.”