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If you still work at a company that concerns itself with the empathetic aspect of firing people, your experience isn't representative.

I do. I also fire people, and it is a difficult experience every time.

Additionally, small company employees are representative of a significant portion (~50%) of the US population and contribute around 40% of the US GDP.

Until AI learns higher-order empathy and concludes humans are actively harmful.

Well, I mean, not all humans, I suppose you could distill a population down to one conclusion, but if the AI was a true higher order empathetic agent, it would be very much like getting shot with a point of view gun many billion times over.

when you have AI manager, you will have AI employee incoming

Yeah, but many aspects of management are way more simple than doing said work that an employee would do.