Submitted by pkd1982 t3_10rze83 in Futurology
I'd say (maybe not first but right there at the top), CEO, CFOs, VPs and whatnot. And specially those that are incompetent, too expensive and mostly the corrupt. Sure we may think AI will first come for the menial jobs but to corporations, profits will always be the goal, so anything that disrupts that will be eliminated.
Now, the biggest expanse in a corporation is, most often than not, its payroll, so our minds go towards AI eliminating that, but I'd also say that when the AI sees the book and then the real book with all the shady dealings and money being diverted they'll also eliminate that. AI may screw up a village in Thailand for profits, pollute a river in the amazon by mistake, and one thing it will not care about as well is people scratching each others' back. In the end, I think corruption, bias, bad managerial skills may very well be one of the first things AI goes after and I hope I'm alive to see it.
(The assumption here is whoever programmed the AI did not input their own bias into it or a "true" AI that works independent of its first coding.)
What y'all think? Too optimistic?