Middle manager proposes to company owner replacing staff with AI, gets replaced himself: 'I have took his suggestions to heart and decided to automate his role'

It's hard to escape the conversation surrounding AI and the growing likelihood that we may soon find our jobs replaced by it. Yet, while some have attempted it, most seem to be falling short of success. While AI is proven to be effective at handling superfluous and repetitive work, it doesn't yet understand the subtlety and nuance of specific tasks, often lacking necessary details or fabricating information and then confidently reporting it as fact. So, at the very least, even where there is efficiency to be gained through the use of these new tools, you still need someone with a deep enough understanding of the work to audit the information or product that the AI generates.

But, of course, with it being the latest buzz, every muddling middle manager has been frothing at the chance to be the hero of their organization, dreaming of the accolades and promotions they will earn by serving up their subordinates jobs on a silver platter to their AI overlords, forgetting that their paper pushing and communication is one of the things that can be most easily replaced. This manager learned that lesson when they approached their boss about utilizing AI to replace their team's jobs, finding that their boss took their advice—just not in the way that they had in mind.

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