Mark Zuckerberg's longest-serving employee in AI, employment - and her boss

Mark Zuckerberg's senior employee on AI, jobs – and her boss

As Naomi Slide nearly 20 years ago Metamorphology came, she was the 29th employee of the company. Today, she is the oldest employee – apart from the founder Mark Zuckerberg. Since he came to him at the age of 21 years, glide has witnessed how a start-up called Facebook turned into a technology giant called Meta, surpassing many storms and controversies. She is now a product leader and told the BBC that work at Meta is her dream job – even though her family needed a lot of to convince her that she had made the right decision two decades ago. “My mother was very disappointed, she wanted me to work for Lehman Brothers,” she laughs. The collapse of the investment bank in 2008 triggered a global financial crisis. Meta is still strong, but has experienced its own earthquakes: from data protection scandals and election manipulation plans to mental crises in teenagers and toxic online damages. Sugar mountains “unfairer” call

Slide acknowledges that there were moments in which the company did not meet our standards or missed the target. But she says there is also a lot she is proud of – and Facebook’s notorious motto “Get away quickly and messy things” is a “misunderstood value in isolation”. She also believes that Mark Zuckerberg’s reputation as a tech brother is “unfair” as a villain. For some, Zuckerberg is an archetypal big-tech leader – not only because of the scandals of his company, but also because of his cold, robotic and inconsiderate appearance, which is worthy of a more precise consideration. The actor Jesse Eisenberg, who played the Facebook founder in the film “The Social Network” about the company’s origins in 2010, said the BBC last February, he did not want to be associated with him and his “problematic” actions. Following star Jeremy Strong, Zuckerberg will soon be the stewards of a huge social media empire behind a huge social media empire. “I think the difference between what people think about Mark and what Mark actually is is huge,” says glide. “He is also a great husband and a great father of three small children, and it was really unbelievable to see how he became the leader he is today,” says sliding. There is a slightly significant break when I ask sliding how Zuckerberg is the boss before she decides “big”. One of their employees jokes that this will appear in their assessment. AI transformation

Slide came this week from the U.S. headquarters of Meta to Great Britain to talk about the latest major disruption factor of the company: AI agents. Agents are like an advanced form of chatbots – they can not only answer questions, but also perform tasks completely. Slide says that these agents can be “superpowers” for small businesses, so Meta integrates them into WhatsApp, which counts hundreds of millions of business users among the 3.5 billion people worldwide who use the platform. The company plans to charge large and small companies fees to ensure that AI agents run day and night in their name WhatsApp chats with customers and deliver business insights. “We really focus on what companies need and they tell us that they receive so many messages from people,” says glide. She suggests that AI agents can help them better in managing and communicating with customers than with existing tools. However, there are many questions about the reliability of AI agencies – and there are concerns that they use their autonomy to act unpredictable. The problem there, says glide, has nothing to do with the agent itself – and it insists that security is the “priority and focus” of the company. She says that the technology is of particular value for small businesses that get access to customer insights that are mainly available to large companies that can afford to hire a lot of people who do the job for them. But what happens to the people who would otherwise do these jobs? Slide says that there is no doubt that AI will “change” the world of work, but it is optimistic about creating new jobs that are still unknown. “When I grew up, there was no job as a product manager because there was no Internet,” she says. The employees also fought against the use of key stop monitoring to track their work to train Meta's own AI tools. Slip advice to young people who deal with the question of how AI tools, such as those promoted by them, will affect their careers is: “Be curious.”

She says that thanks to AI, for the first time in her life she is able to program, and Zuckerberg, who programmed Facebook when she met him, is back to programming. “Even at work we learn all new skills,” she says.