I want to strongly disagree with the conclusion based on 1-off personal anectdota. Last year my working group within our company secured a major contract; larg

I want to strongly disagree with the conclusion based on 1-off personal anectdota. Last year my working group within our company secured a major contract; largest for our company for the year. We expected we would have to hire 20+ entry level positions to execute on the contract. While the process was fundamentally based on ML, we knew there would be a large quantity of human labor as well to execute on time. My colleagues and I, instead of going on a hiring spree, asked the overlords for 3 months of overhead time to develop 'intelligent automation' to reduce the number of new / temporary hires. We were able to make substantial enough gains to not have to bring on any new hires and complete the work, ahead of schedule and way under budget with our existing crew. It was adjusting our thinking about how we do our work and incorporating ML at multiple levels in our system to intelligently guide our process that allowed us to eliminate 60% of the new positions that previously would have been generated by this work. 100% ML is coming for you.