True. Meanwhile, Sally in IT is still earnestly thinking 10x more than all stakeholders in her meetings combined, and is baffled why the company can't execute, almost as if no one else is actually doing their job.

You and I will receive routine paychecks, bonuses, and promos, but poor Sally's stress from a dysfunctional environment will knock decades off her healthy lifespan.

Before then, if the big-corp has gotten too hopeless, I suppose that the opportunistic thing to do would be to find the Sallys in the company, and co-found a startup with them.

Sounds like a few places I’ve worked, minus the AI in the middle.

When does the

"Actually, get rid of all the humans"

happen in this chain of events?

Never. 100 years of unparalleled technological progress and productivity gains have lead to a society where 96.3% of the american labor pool is forced to work. Why should AI be any different than any of the "job saving" inventions that came before?

In the AI utopia, "knowledge work" is delegated to computers, and the humans who used to do productive and rewarding things will simply do bullshit jobs [0] instead.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_job

Even already today, a lot of knowledge work jobs have a lot of overlap with the bullshit working with excel sort of office jobs especially when you consider what you are actually doing day to day and week to week.

Ah yes, the more better technology makes more, better jobs for horses argument.

I must have forgotten about the lines of people on every block looking for work as a stable hand

Because you don't have to pay AI.

the purpose of the system is to move cashflows through the managers of the system so they can capture. So no sufficiently large system can get rid of the humans it is designed to move money through unless there is some catastrophic watershed moment, like last year, where it becomes acceptable and an organizational imperative to shed managers. Remember, broadly the purpose of employees is to increase manager headcount so manager can get promoted to control larger cashflows.

Humans are legally and contractually required.

No, seriously, there are rules having nothing to do with AI that require certain things to be done by separate individuals, implying that you need at least two humans.

once they get around all the bugs causing cross bot sexual harassment, we are doomed

Fully automated communism is when we all agree to cut back on meetings and spend 35 hours a week goofing off in our cube.