An invoice arrives for five thousand dollars and the scan reads fifty thousand. Every system downstream agrees, because every one of them is reading the same misread value. Automating a task also removes the person who was looking at the work, and nothing records that loss.
AI closes the gap fastest for the least experienced worker, and the entry-level jobs where inexperienced people used to become experienced ones are opening less often. Those jobs were never only output. They were how the part nobody writes down got transferred, and organizations now lean harder on judgment they have stopped producing.
