Part of me often wonders - to the extent that the C**O or board members of multinational corps do any meaningful work (in between playing golf and having lunches with their peers), is deciding on what the best strategy for the next 3 months - 5 years might be, largely vibes-based? Sure, you can (get an employee to) run the numbers on what effects a specific action will have if nothing else changes - but what are the chances of that? How your customers, shareholders, suppliers, or the economy itself react isn’t certain, and other shifts unconnected to your strategy are a crapshoot too - is a stock bubble gonna pop, or are there going to be any political changes/elections that redefine the landscape?
Like a lot of people in a lot of situations, they’re kinda winging it a lot more than they think they should be, and a semi-decent LLM could probably make a pretty good stab at doing what they do (and a darn sight better that the worst 10% of their colleagues), and some of them probably realise this. And if an LLM could make a reasonable candidate for doing what they do, then surely it must be good enough (in their eyes) to do what the people below them do? I mean, what those people do must be more rote, and more automatable than their job, surely? Right?
Could that be part of why they’re so susceptible to falling for the AI salesdroid’s grift?
It’s a great joke with the right delivery. I was going to say you were also reprising Smith, but given Clerks was 1994, Smith was probably more likely reprising you 
Uhhh….maybe billionaires in some other timeline where workers have already been replaced by AI? But in the one I’m inhabiting they seem to love that people need jobs to have a comfortable life, or even to survive, and that they have the power to grant or rescind those jobs, and the ability to take advantage of that power imbalance. Giving people a safety net? Nuh-uh - billionaires seem to be the first to shout that down (probably by just screaming “socialism” as loudly as possible) at any attempt to take that power away from them.