A Meta executive overseeing a key piece of its AI-related restructuring is leaving the company, according to an internal announcement seen by Reuters on Wednesday. Emily Dalton Smith, who has been with the Facebook owner since 2015, previously held roles as a vice president of product management and head of product for Meta's microblogging app Threads. Her departure comes about two months after Meta told employees she would be leading product work to improve internal AI tooling as part of a company-wide overhaul to center AI. The restructuring, aimed at developing AI agents that could autonomously carry out tasks currently performed by human staffers, has caused an uproar among Meta employees, involving laying off 10% of the workforce, transferring nearly as many employees to new units, and introducing mouse-tracking software. Dalton Smith's unit was focused on making AI useful for everyone, including responsibility for Metamate, Meta's main internal enterprise AI assistant. A Meta spokesperson declined to comment on whether Dalton Smith was leaving, but said Meta was continuing to incorporate AI tooling into Metamate. Dalton Smith told Meta employees in a separate memo last month that executives were aiming to consolidate internal-use AI tools into Metamate, with her team planning to incorporate features from Manus, a Singapore-based AI agent startup Meta acquired for around $2 billion in December. The inclusion of Manus-like features has made the project especially sensitive, as the Chinese government ordered the unwinding of the deal in April. Dalton Smith said in her announcement on