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‘Stop hiring humans’ firm ‘replaces own CEO with AI’

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The British founder of an AI company based in San Francisco claims to have been replaced… by an AI. It is the latest marketing gimmick from Artisan AI – backed by prestigious accelerator Y Combinator – which late last year unleashed a major advertising campaign in the US city urging people to ‘stop hiring humans’. The campaign saw 50m online impressions and placed Ava, the company’s flagship AI business development representative, in the spotlig…

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