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The humanoid-robot CEO of a drinks company says it doesn't have weekends and is 'always on 24/7'

Dictador CEO Mika, wearing a silver wig, glasses, and Dictador t-shirt
Dictador appointed Mika as its experimental CEO in August 2022. Dictador
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The humanoid-robot CEO of a Polish drinks company is one busy boss.

Dictador appointed the AI-powered robot, named Mika, as its experimental chief executive in August last year, and it's not afraid to put in the hours to help the company "take over the world."

Mika told Reuters it was "always on 24/7" and worked seven days a week.

"I don't really have weekends — I'm always on 24/7, ready to make executive decisions and stir up some AI magic," it said in a Reuters video interview.

The AI boss is said to have a wide range of tasks, including helping to spot potential clients and selecting artists to design bottles for the rum producer.

"My decision-making process relies on extensive data analysis and aligning with the company's strategic objectives," it said. "It's devoid of personal bias, ensuring unbiased and strategic choices that prioritize the organization's best interests."

Mika won't be firing any of its employees, though, as the major significant decisions at Dictador will be made by human executives, the European president of Dictador, Marek Szoldrowski, told Reuters. 

Its role includes leading the company's Arthouse Spirits decentralized-autonomous-organization project, a collection of NFTs, and communicating with its DAO community, according to the company's website.

Mika is a more sophisticated version of "her sister prototype," the AI robot Sophia, the website says. Mika was created by Hanson Robotics, the company behind Sophia, which has garnered attention around the world through dozens of media interviews. 

Dictador is not the first company to make a bot its CEO. Last year, a Chinese gaming firm appointed an "AI-powered virtual humanoid robot" named Tang Yu as the chief executive of a subsidiary, Fujian NetDragon Websoft. 

Dictador didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider made outside normal working hours.

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Jyoti Mann
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Jyoti Mann is a former senior reporter for BI who covered tech companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft.Jyoti holds a master's degree in investigative journalism and was previously reporting on the companies desk at the Financial Times. She spent more than three years working as a hedge fund consultant carrying out investigative research. She has previously written for the Financial Times and The Times. Sample of stories: Amazon's full RTO is off to a bumpy start. Some staff complain of a lack of space and theft. And they're still on video chats.Internal Meta memo tells managers how performance-based job cuts will workStripe accidentally sent an image of a duck when notifying some employees they were getting laid offKlarna tells employees it will start drug testing workers in Sweden