After Klarna, Zoom’s CEO additionally makes use of an AI avatar on quarterly name

CEOs are actually so immersed in AI, they’re sending their avatars to handle quarterly earnings calls as a substitute of themselves, no less than partially.

After the Klarna CEO’s AI avatar appeared on an investor name earlier this week, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan adopted go well with, additionally utilizing his avatar for preliminary feedback. Yuan deployed his customized avatar through Zoom Clips, the corporate’s asynchronous video creation software.

“I’m proud to be among the many first CEOs to make use of an avatar in an earnings name,” he — or moderately his avatar — stated. “It is only one instance of how Zoom is pushing the boundaries of communication and collaboration. On the similar time, we all know belief and safety are important. We take AI-generated content material critically and have inbuilt sturdy safeguards to stop misuse, shield person identification, and guarantee avatars are used responsibly.”

Yuan has lengthy advocated for utilizing avatars in conferences and has beforehand stated that the corporate goals to create digital twins of customers. He’s not alone on this imaginative and prescient; the CEO of AI-powered transcription service Otter is reportedly coaching his personal avatar to share the workload.

In the meantime, Zoom stated that it’s making the customized avatar add-on function out there to all customers this week.