Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI. Here's how it imploded. - The Economic Times
Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI. Here's how it imploded. - The Economic Times
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Last Updated: Aug 26, 2026, 04:19:00 PM IST
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Meta considered cutting some teams by as much as 60% under an AI-driven restructuring plan, Reuters reported. The company ultimately cut 10% of staff in May and abandoned a second round as employee opposition grew and internal data showed AI tools were not delivering expected productivity gains.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
NEW YORK: In January,
Mark Zuckerberg
and his top lieutenants gathered for their annual leadership retreat at his Hawaii compound. There they hatched a radical plan to reimagine work at the social-media giant in the age of artificial intelligence.
Code-named Project OT - short for Organization Transformation - the plan envisioned an "AI native" future for the owner of Facebook and Instagram. AI would take over much of the daily work performed by thousands of human employees. Virtual workers would be overseen inside Meta by smaller, "talent-dense" cadres of human staffers, according to one internal planning document reviewed by Reuters and three people familiar with the project.
In scenario-planning exercises, two of these people said, executives explored slashing the size