Sebastian Siemiatkowski is far more leaning towards the idea that IPO-bound startup Klarna is an AI company, the payer of his hoarding. When Klarna provided updated quarterly revenue on Monday, it was his AI avatar (pictured above) who presented the highlights, according to the company’s YouTube video.
Apart from the entrance to ai siemiatkowski, it was not clear that this was an AI. There were only a few subtle signs: ai siemiatkowski did not blink as much as most humans. The audio sync was good, but it wasn’t perfect. AI also wore a brown jacket that closely resembles a photograph of his human self (though the shirts were different).
Preparing to debut as a public company, Klarna used its latest finances to promote AI as a driver for hitting 100 million users. The use of AI was used for the fourth consecutive profitable quarter, explaining it “scheduled the workforce by about 40%,” the company said in a blog post that it increased revenue per employee by nearly $1 million.
Human Siemiatkowski has designated CNBC as “the company has reduced from about 5,000 to now 3,000 employees.”
He is not the first CEO to enjoy the idea that AI will replace CEOs. AI sales agent startup Artisan, known for its virus “stop hiring humans” ad campaign, has posted an April Fool’s Day video in which CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack was fired and replaced by AI CEO.
However, the idea of replacing AIS with CEOs might not be a complete joke. While some CEOs, especially startups, are sure to get dirty coding capabilities and cold call outlooks, the main job of a CEO is to set strategies, make decisions and be responsible for those decisions.
Rather than AI built on SATA’s inference model, who digests large sample of corporate data, researches the gobs of success in business strategies, and uses it to make decisions? In fact, a study published in Harvard Business Review last year found that AI can outperform most human CEOs based on models using GPT-4o.
However, the AI CEO was quickly fired by the virtual board of investigations. The researchers found this was because they had not responded much to “black swan events, including the collapse of markets during the Covid-19 pandemic.” Still, as AI would like to point out, these are early days. Future AI CEOs may also learn to excel at it.
Klarna did not immediately respond to requests for further comment.