Discounting the evidence of it being explicitly cited as a reason for layoffs and that its purpose to business is to replace human labor, there's no evidence that its replacing human labor. Got it.
(I am an AI optimist, by the by. But that is not one of its success stories.)
There probably are a few nuts out there that actually fired people to be replaced with AI, I feel like that won't go well for them
There really is no evidence.
I'll say its okay to be reserved on this, since we won't know until after the fact, but give it 6-12 months, then we'll know for sure. Until then, I see no reason not to believe there is a culture in the boardrooms forming around AI that is driving closed door conversations about reducing headcount specifically to be replaced by AI.
[0]: https://gizmodo.com/the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-2000635294