I'm sure they'll just hire another professional services company.

GDP economists hate this one weird trick!

It's also just generally a good barometer of a good idea. If people can't independently evaluate an idea and come to a similar conclusion on their own, it just means that you simply apply coercion and then you get to be right! It's excellent as a management practice which I'll note all the big 4 claim to offer...

But can you get bail out money for being correct?

Yes, actually, i dont, you don't, but "we" forget shit like this all day,.every day, all the fucking Time

Once this shit is over, most people will not have a single fucking clue what any of these fucking evil companies did.

Hell, even now, Facebook/ Instagram's meta is fucking the world, and most of their users are clueless while it's going on

Name me an (IT) consulting company which isn't pushing AI.

Make them hire and then fire you. lol

Yes, so you should ask for a big discount.

Not only that, from the article they are actively trying to become a Consultancy As A Service company, where somehow other companies would pay a subscription fee to.... talk to their AI, I guess?

The only time I've had anything to do with PwC, it was to get their advice on a compliance / tax related process. And it was less about the process itself or the 3 page pdf they produced (which much cheaper companies could have done better) and more because their "seal of approval" would give my company some leverage if the IRS came to audit us. "This was designed with PwC" means "we tried really really hard to abide by the incredibly confusing wording of the law".

I doubt that "we asked PwC's chatbot" will have the same level of clout, but these guys have connections everywhere so I'm sure they will lobby pretty hard to get some ad-hoc law or some level of "certification" on the output of their future AI.