“I would actually be quite interested if any of the current objections to flexible work ever get repurposed for the AI revolution. “If all these tasks are done by AI, how will our junior staff serve their apprenticeship?” “This is a relationship business and you can’t build trusted relationships with AI content”. Will we ever get CEOs sending all-staff emails saying “It has been a valuable experiment and I appreciate that some colleagues feel that AI has improved their productivity, but we work best when we work as a team, and that means a team of human beings. So, allowing six months notice for those colleagues who need to adapt their arrangements, we will be a no-AI company once more starting from Labor Day”. I have an intuition that they won’t”
https://backofmind.substack.com/p/a-more-subtle-cost-disease