No. People that boil a job down to a simple cognitive task rarely understand what the actual work of the job is.
You are right, but this tool gives executives a nominal reason to downsize.
Is downsizing a thing that execs fear of?
Less budget, less power.
In practice it doesn't work that way. What's downsized is line workers that exec's treat as fungible and don't care about anyway. Any "savings" goes to more management to run whatever the replacement solution is. Someone like a foreman may see their headcount reduced but they are the only people who would care.
Exactly. I am a "Data Scientist" for whatever that label is worth. But what I actually do is domain specific to outdoor air quality. These tools help automate the boring stuff - if chatGPT made programming obsolete for me tomorrow I wouldn't lose my job, I would just be able to spend my time doing something more useful. But somehow I doubt it will.