Surprisingly, there is no apparent discussion here about the fact that this argument parrots, precisely, the rightly-derided original, "guns don't kill people,

Surprisingly, there is no apparent discussion here about the fact that this argument parrots, precisely, the rightly-derided original, "guns don't kill people, people do." There is an interesting way in which this is different, though, which is that the current lack of agency by AI is going to prove a very short window, most of all for the sort of agency of interest here, "who" is deciding which jobs to cut. Anyone with a loan or insurance denied on the basis of "what the computer said" would rightly already contend that there is sufficient agency to yes, steal your job.