Cognitive automation allows "increased efficiency" by firing staff whose tasks could be automated away using ML (imagine QA folks manually checking output of so

Cognitive automation allows "increased efficiency" by firing staff whose tasks could be automated away using ML (imagine QA folks manually checking output of some industrial process which could be replaced by a bunch of cameras and a ML model). Companies that were reluctant to do that while they had plenty of money might be more willing to do it during recession.