The big boss at my work said we will be reducing staff through natural attrition over the next 5 years or so as we train and become increasingly confident in AI's ability to do useful work for us.

He said that we don't want to freak people out. We don't want them to think that AI is going to replace them and they're just training it for that purpose.

The flip side of the coin is if AI helps relieve our salesmen of a bunch of administrative tasks, they will have more time to sell. That same logic spills down the line to engineers, project managers, accountants, etc.

I pointed out to the boss that AI may be just as useful for allowing the company to "scale up" and do more business per year and be more profitable.

He agreed with that as being an appropriate inclusion for the "outcome space" of this move.