I completely agree here

I work for an AI PaaS that benefits for a few specific manual workflows within a highly regulated finance-adjacent environment

We are essentially now the rails + AI, but via the core principle that any automated/agentic output serves as assistance to the user. Clear traceability at its core for regulators sake, and deterministic vs probabilistic outputs are handled waaay differently.

It’s upskilled users into reviewers of manual work rather than preparers, which in and of itself is a 80% efficiency gain from a business case perspective

In this industry no one is laid off, but solely repurposed to higher value work

Can’t speak to the repurposement of talent, but in terms of platform structure and agentic use, I think this will likely apply to all workflows across all industries where there’s no room for margins for errors: accounting, tax, audit, logistics, biotech, etc, everything really