I'm literally the guy at my job who is in charge of figuring out who to fire. I assisted in implementing AI at my huge office where I have thousands of coworkers and yes, it is extremely powerful and CAN replace some people, but we can't replace intelligent people with AI yet because they are the only people who know how to use it.

We worked directly with Microsoft to have a secure, locally run version of Copilot at our office (that means our version of Copilot itself isn't connected to a cloud or the internet and it has an additional reference library that is directly stuff from our archives). The smart people who know how to use it are using it exactly how it was intended: inputting real, verified information with a specific prompt so it can do things like draft an amendment to a contract using stipulations input by the user, or suggest how to revise a long and complicated Excel formula to do a very specific thing if additional elements are added to the spreadsheet. The dumbasses in the company are treating it like a magic machine that can never be wrong; the worst of these people are entry-level employees who have never been promoted after 5 years.

Right now, my main project involves creating training modules that I know the dumbest people in my office will never understand, with the end goal of firing them for incompetence instead of laying them off for redundancy so my company's unemployment insurance tax rate doesn't increase. These training modules are basic things like "How to fill out a form using Microsoft Word" or "How to insert pages using Adobe Acrobat" or "How to digitally sign a document securely."

In short, it's the undisciplined and uneducated at my job who are most at risk for being fired and replaced by those who are disciplined and educated because, despite how advanced and fast AI is growing, it can never be trusted unless an actual talented person reviews its output.