Meta CTO Leads Efforts to Equip Workforce With AI Tools

Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth will lead the company’s efforts to adopt artificial intelligence tools throughout its workforce.

Bosworth said in a Tuesday (March 24) post on X that Meta has been integrating AI tools across the organization and expects them to give employees more power to accomplish their work.

“On a personal note, working with these tools reminds me of the feeling I had when I first learned to code as a teenager,” Bosworth said in the post. “It feels like a secret superpower. I want everyone in every role to have that same feeling so my goal is to build the tools that empower everyone at the company as part of my role as CTO.”

Bosworth said this while reposting a Tuesday report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that said he had been tasked with overseeing Meta’s “AI for Work” initiative, which pushes AI adoption throughout the company’s workforce.

According to the WSJ report, Bosworth has been with Meta since 2006, became CTO in 2022, and has overseen the company’s metaverse operations.

Meta cut 1,500 roles from its metaverse division in January and has shifted its spending to AI glasses and other projects, the report said.

Together with AI for Work, Bosworth is overseeing another new organization at Meta that applies AI and supports the teams building the company’s large language models, per the report.

Of the AI for Work initiative, Bosworth said in a note to employees, per the WSJ report: “As I’ve been digging in I’ve found we have a lot to be proud of. The early pilots, the willingness to pressure-test new ideas, and the speed at which we’ve enabled teams to embrace AI tools has created real momentum and sets us up for this next phase.”

It was reported Sunday (March 22) that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a “CEO agent” to assist him with his job. The AI agent is helping Zuckerberg get information faster, finding answers for him that would normally require going through layers of people.

Zuckerberg’s project reflects Meta’s view that AI adoption is key to its success, the report said. Meta employees are increasingly using AI tools as this has become a factor in their performance evaluations.

The CEO said in January during an earnings call: “We’re investing in AI-native tooling so individuals at Meta can get more done. We’re elevating individual contributors and flattening teams. If we do this, then I think that we’re going to get a lot more done and I think it’ll be a lot more fun.”

The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Generation AI: Why Gen Z Bets Big and Boomers Hold Back” found that about 2 in 3 zoomers and zillennials, 37% of Gen Xers and 10% of boomers are integrating generative AI into both their workdays and their personal lives.

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