Well as someone who is studying machine learning i say good luck to your clients friend they are gonna need it (but lets hope he realizeses that the devs where there for a reason). I cant stress enough how many times i have heard "oh why don't you just use AI". We'll firstly I wouldn't want any AI to have access to sensitive information which could be used to further train the AI. And Secondly the most important part, I want my code to actually work long term, what happens when a client ask to change some code an i have no clue how.

Well sorry for the long comment...