Saad Ullah
⬤ Social media exploded after a parody post announced Meta had supposedly launched "Meta Superintelligence Labs" with Alexander Wang at the helm. The joke? Meta's entire executive team got replaced by AI-optimized clones of Wang himself, all branded under "Claude Cowork." A mock "Meet Our Team" graphic showed Wang as CEO surrounded by placeholder AI executive cards, making the satire pretty obvious to anyone paying attention.
⬤ The whole thing was clearly tongue-in-cheek from the start. The branding looked deliberately fake, the concept was absurdly exaggerated, and Meta never announced anything remotely like this. Alexander Wang isn't running some secret AI division there. What the post really did was poke fun at the current obsession with AI taking over everything—including the C-suite.
⬤ The fact that this blew up shows how AI dominates every conversation right now. People are genuinely debating whether AI coworkers and automated leadership are the future, so a parody like this hits close to home. Meta's heavily invested in AI research, sure, but they're not actually replacing their executives with algorithms—at least not yet.
⬤ Why this matters: parody is blending into real discourse so smoothly that people sometimes can't tell the difference. When AI hype is this intense, even obvious jokes can shape sentiment and fuel genuine debates. This viral moment captures both the excitement and the unease around AI's expanding role in business, reminding everyone to double-check what's real versus what's just really good satire.
Saad Ullah
