> Interesting! It sounds like you may also work in the tech/IT sector?

I've spent my entire career to date in strategy and management consulting, nearly all of that in the P&C insurance sector, and in the back half of my career (and especially since the onset of the pandemic) tech and transformation work took on a greater role in the projects I was assigned to. I'd argue this probably should've happened earlier, but there is always a degree of apprehension in being attached to something you know next to nothing about. Thankfully I got over that.

> Yeah, lately on new technology projects '...oh, and make sure it has AI!' has been tacked on to the requirements list, but with the persons added it having no clear understanding of what AI is or what they actually want to do with it. It's just a buzzword, and they want to have it. They also seem to think it will somehow work magic and replace people completely. Which it won't.

Recently I sat on an industry call focused on AI, and at least the panelists there were smart enough to state that AI is often only as good as the underlying data you feed into it.

> Yeeaaah, I'm kinda bothered by just how enthusiastic management has been at the prospect of eliminating jobs using AI. Just what do they think is gonna happen if/when no one has a job anymore?

Yes, you do have to admit it is strange that the most enthusiastic acolytes for widespread AI adoption also tend to be the people who want to cut social safety nets.