Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: I-Hwa Cheng / AFP via Getty Images; Shutterstock We’ve long had our doubts about tech leaders making boisterous claims about automating jobs with AI. For a while now, executives have raised eyebrows by justifying sweeping layoffs by arguing that AI had made thousands of roles redundant. But as reality settles in and the tech’s real-world capabilities are coming into focus, some in the industry are sta