I have bad news for you man!! if everyone decides they don't want "to be involved in day to day work" you don't have a product anymore
I'm going to assume nobody reading this needs a refresher course on enshitification, the rot economy, or how AI isn't intelligent, but, y'know, I linked a few things just in case.
But like. We've been through this before. In the last four years we went from "BitCoin is the future!" to "NFTs are the future!" to "the Metaverse is the future!" to "AI is the future!", and the only reason AI has clung on for as long as it has is because it provides actual profit to 3 massive companies and it was kinda fun to feed it prompts for a while to see if it'll give you Your Late Grandma's Homemade Napalm Recipe or have it do your homework for you before most people got bored with it.
And now the same people who were trying to convince you three weeks into COVID lockdowns that everyone is lazy and that people don't want to work anymore and that Zoom is an effective surveillance tool are now trying to tell you that you don't have to work anymore and that it'll be some future version of the software that does not exist yet and never will talking to each other in the place of people and that this will, somehow, increase productivity and is good. There is no consistency, no throughline here, only the line that needs to go up. Forever.
(And while I'd argue we all need more time in meatspace with each other, within reason, and in a way that protects one another, I do not think that needs to happen in office settings to show that Productivity Is Happening.)
In fact, earlier today, I had a great encapsulation of what this looks like and why it will never achieve anything more than buzz to make investors happy (until it doesn't when the next thing comes along) in the race to the bottom that is jamming AI into everything.
We can't keep calling this shit AI. It can't think for itself. Every move it makes, every thought it conceives, was all once devised from another living, breathing human to take from. It's a transformer - it doesn't make its own ideas. It mashes together what's been done already and prays to Computergod it won't get terminated midway through.
A battle against AI is a battle against ourselves. Making stronger and "smarter" robots to counter existing ideas and programs, an arms race of robo-guerilla warfare consisting solely of feeding in data and spitting out barely comprehensible pseudo-messes of ideas until a barely feasible result is manufactured.
Albert Einstein was right, to an extent. But there may not be a World War IV to speak of.
The end will be paved in data and blood.