Also, people looking for answers famously love being made to talk to a computer instead of an actual human. A full-on “uncanny valley” AI pretending to be the boss is sure to go over just as well.

I guess robotic phone trees that demand you speak, yet constantly misinterpret what you say, simply don’t hammer home the amount of contempt CEOs have for the rest of us. I’ve found that repeatedly hitting the zero key usually makes those calls transfer to a human, but somehow I doubt a CEO’s AI clone would give people that option.