{"id":224900,"date":"2026-02-24T23:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/uber-engineers-built-an-ai-version-of-their-boss-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:09:28","slug":"uber-engineers-built-an-ai-version-of-their-boss-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/uber-engineers-built-an-ai-version-of-their-boss-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber engineers built an AI version of their boss | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<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 \u201cliterally the builders of the company.\u201d In fact, Uber\u2019s engineers have gone so far as to replace Khosrowshahi with a chatbot that they\u2019ll ask questions in preparation of meetings with the top brass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s according to an interview Khosrowshahi gave this week on Steven Bartlett\u2019s 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>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne 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,\u201d Khosrowshahi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s52O1JH2tnU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said on the podcast<\/a>. \u201cBecause you can imagine, like, you know, by the time something comes to me, there\u2019s been a prep and a meeting of the slide deck has been beautifully honed. So they have Dara AI to tune their prep.\u201d<\/p>\n<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>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 90% of Uber\u2019s software engineers are using AI in their work, Khosrowshahi said, while about 30% are \u201cpower users\u201d of AI tools, completely rethinking the architecture of the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey are manufacturing the bricks that go into the system, and they\u2019re architects who are kind of thinking about what the system should look like,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Khosrowshahi added: \u201cIt really is changing their productivity in a way that I\u2019ve never, ever seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-techcrunch-inline-cta\">\n<div class=\"inline-cta__wrapper\">\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-cta__content\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__location\">Boston, MA<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__separator\">|<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__date\">June 9, 2026<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/24\/uber-engineers-built-ai-version-of-boss-dara-khosrowshahi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cliterally the builders of the company.\u201d In fact, Uber\u2019s engineers have gone so far as to replace Khosrowshahi with a chatbot that they\u2019ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-224900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}