Reminds me of "What people really want from the automated adding machine is not more accurate sums, but a box into which they may place their responsibility."
That service is being provided by “AI” now. “It was't us, the AI made that decision!”
Their attribution on that? Love to know if there were shades of this realization in Babbage's time.
So McKinsey is the first company replaced by AI. Exchanging a few billion dollars of bad advice with a ChatGPT subscription.
The problem with that is ChatGPT has some safety constraints. McKinsey is scum of the earth and has no morals or ethics.
On the contrary, McKinsey can also service as an abstraction between the customer and AI. The customer gets two layers of removal from any real responsibility for the price of one.