Uber engineers built an AI version of their boss

Uber engineers built 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 really just a giant code base with engineers that are “literally the builders of the company.” In fact, Uber’s engineers have gone so far as to replace Khosrowshahi with a

<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">Consumers probably think of Uber as a ride-hailing and food delivery company. But in the eyes of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber is really just a giant code base with engineers that are “literally the builders of the company.” In fact, Uber’s engineers have gone so far as to replace Khosrowshahi with a chatbot that they’ll ask questions in preparation of meetings with the top brass.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That’s according to an interview Khosrowshahi gave this week on Steven Bartlett’s podcast, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/uber-ceo-at-uber-if-you-dont-perform-youre-out-uber/id1291423644?i=1000750970845" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">The Diary of a CEO</a>.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“One of my team members told me that some teams have built a Dara AI, you know, so that they basically make the presentation to the Dara AI as a prep for making a presentation to me,” Khosrowshahi <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s52O1JH2tnU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">said on the podcast</a>. “Because you can imagine, like, you know, by the time something comes to me, there’s been a prep and a meeting of the slide deck has been beautifully honed. So they have Dara AI to tune their prep.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Business Insider <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-employees-use-ai-clone-ceo-prepare-meetings-presentations-2026-2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">earlier reported</a> this detail.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">About 90% of Uber’s software engineers are using AI in their work, Khosrowshahi said, while about 30% are “power users” of AI tools, completely rethinking the architecture of the company.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“They are manufacturing the bricks that go into the system, and they’re architects who are kind of thinking about what the system should look like,” he said.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Khosrowshahi added: “It really is changing their productivity in a way that I’ve never, ever seen before.”</p>