{"id":42475,"date":"2025-05-22T19:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=42475"},"modified":"2025-05-22T19:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:50:05","slug":"klarna-uses-an-ai-clone-of-its-ceo-to-summarize-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=42475","title":{"rendered":"Klarna Uses an AI Clone of Its CEO to Summarize Earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Was that Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski on the screen or an AI clone?<\/p>\n

When “buy now, pay later” fintech company Klarna reported its first-quarter financial results this week via video, it placed a realistic AI clone of Siemiatkowski, 43, front and center. The clone started the one-minute, 23-second presentation by admitting it was an “AI avatar, here to share Klarna’s Q1 2025 highlights.”<\/p>\n

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According to Klarna’s first quarter 2025 results, the company hit 100 million active consumers in the first quarter of 2025, a new record and the fastest growth in two years. Klarna also delivered its fourth profitable quarter in a row, achieving an adjusted operating profit of $3 million. Revenue rose 15% year-over-year to $701 million for Q1, with the U.S. driving 33% of that growth.<\/p>\n

On the call, Siemiatkowski’s likeness voiced that AI was the reason behind the company’s growth. Klarna said that 96% of its roughly 3,000 employees use AI daily, resulting in a 152% increase in revenue per employee since the first quarter of 2023. The company is aiming to eventually reach $1 million in revenue per employee with the help of AI, up from $575,000 per worker last year.<\/p>\n

“AI is helping us work smarter, scale faster, and deliver more value,” the AI clone stated.<\/p>\n

Despite being upfront with the admission that it was an AI clone giving the results, Entrepreneur<\/i> had a hard time telling the AI apart from Siemiatkowski.<\/p>\n

Related: <\/b>Duolingo Put Its Sarcastic Teen Chatbot to Work on Its Earnings Call<\/p>\n

TechCrunch<\/i> noted that the clone didn’t blink as much as a human would, and its voice didn’t sync up perfectly with its lip movements.<\/p>\n

Siemiatkowski’s AI avatar said in the presentation that Klarna is using AI for marketing, product development, customer support, and insights.<\/p>\n

“100 million consumers, profit, growth, and AI is the engine driving it all,” the avatar stated.<\/p>\n