I work for a fortune 500 and I can tell you AI is hidden all around you performing cost cutting automation. We helped other corporations eliminate 50-90% of Accounting, Data Entry, Call Centers, and other repetitive manual labor tasks with 40% cost savings. Outsourcing was only a stopping gap in cost savings to be eliminated by AI and automation.

This decade there is a focus to start optimizing repetitive and mass cheap labor. Example: Why eliminate 10 engineers, when it is 1000% easier to eliminate 10,000 data entry specialist.