To answer the question about the value of "AI," it is a black box of pretexts you can use for leverage. Expenses policies are usually grey enough that if you w

To answer the question about the value of "AI," it is a black box of pretexts you can use for leverage. Expenses policies are usually grey enough that if you want someone out of the company without significant severance, using the expenses policy as a pretext imposes costs on the target they probably won't fight. If a company wants to keep someone, there is no end to the excesses they will tolerate barring any liabilities greater than the value they bring. If they want to get rid of someone, the mechanism and the true reason are usually very different. Useful rule is to treat any company expense as a vulnerability that will be used against you in a severance negotiation. Arguably, a more accurate Turing test would be one where instead of being indifferent as to whether we are communicating with a human or machine - we decide that a machine is sufficiently intelligent if it can provide us with pretexts for political leverage against other people.