Cory Doctorow has a really good quote about why AI is so appealing to managers:

If you know in your heart of hearts that if you don't show up for work, everything's fine, but if all the workers don't show up for work, everything stops, you have to, like, confront the possibility that maybe you're not in the driver's seat, maybe you're in the back seat with a toy Fisher-Price steering wheel. And AI is like the possibility of wiring that steering wheel directly into the drive train.