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Uber Staff Use 'Dara AI' Clone of CEO to Prep for Meetings

About 90% of Uber’s engineers now use AI, according to Khosrowshahi.

Overview

  • Khosrowshahi said on The Diary of a CEO podcast that some teams built a 'Dara AI' to rehearse and refine presentations before meeting him.
  • He described the tool as a way to tune slide decks and answers, though he did not specify how widely it is used across the company.
  • Roughly 30% of engineers are considered power users of AI tools, and leadership says the technology is driving a rethink of Uber’s system architecture.
  • Khosrowshahi outlined trade‑offs between hiring more engineers and investing in AI agents and additional GPUs as productivity rises.
  • He cautioned that current models struggle with new, real‑time information and said executive roles become replaceable only when models can learn on the fly.