Toby Howell

And that's why everyone feels so annoyed.

By the way, as midterm elections approach, if you want the one issue in politics today that unifies America, it is the annoyance economy.

It's universally disliked.

A YouGov poll from 2024 found that 87% of respondents strongly support restrictions on telemarketers' use of robocalling.

Another poll found that two-thirds of likely voters said they wanted Congress to make addressing these issues a priority.

So it really is, I mean, we're talking 87%, two-thirds of voters, like this is a very unified issue.

I want to know the minority in those votes who are just like, you know what, no problem.

Some people just want to chat with a telemarketer from time to time.

All right, moving on.

In 1996, Dolly the sheep became the first animal to be successfully cloned.

In 2026, Mark Zuckerberg has become the first CEO to be successfully cloned.

Now, there's not going to be two Zucks walking around doing MRFs and showing up to UFC fights, but Meta is building a photorealistic, AI-powered virtual version of its CEO that

that employees will be able to interact with, according to the Financial Times.

The model has been trained on his voice and look, and also his mannerisms, tone, and recent thinking on company strategy.

The idea is for the AI doppelganger to be where Zuck isn't, answering questions from employees and laying the foundation for what could be other AI-powered characters that are reportedly in development.

automating a ceo has become a very trendy industry conversation lately sam altman told axios last week that the ceo job is quote one of the more automatable jobs out there his thinking is that since ai can have 10x the context that any one executive can carry a ceo bot can be very helpful in bringing everyone in an organization up to speed on what the head honcho is thinking

Neil, all of us have at one time or another been in a meeting and thought, dang, I wish I could clone myself so I wouldn't have to sit here.

Zuck actually is going out and doing it.

The idea is to make employees feel more connected to him because if you work at Meta, there's tens of thousands of employees there.

You're not getting a lot of FaceTime with Mark Zuckerberg.