“Look, if I’d laid him off because he took sick leave, that would be illegal, but I didn’t lay him off because he took sick leave, I laid him off because AI told me to lay him off. And AI is smart. You can’t tell me it wasn’t a good decision.”

-Repeat across the entire economy

We don’t need AI to be functional - we just need it to give us answers we want and convince enough people that it’s giving those answers because it’s better than us.