> We disavow AI because people like Brenda are perfect and the machine is error-prone.

I don't think that is the message here. The message is that while Brenda might know what she is doing and maybe AI helps her.

> She's gonna birth that formula for a financial report and then she's gonna send that financial report

The problem is people who might not know what they are doing

> he would have sent it back to Brenda but he's like oh I have AI and AI is probably like smarter than Brenda and then the AI is gonna fuck it up real bad

Because AI outputs sound so confident it makes even the layman feel like an expert. Rather than involve Brenda to debug the issue, C-suite might say - I believe! I can do it too. AI FTW!

Even when people advocate automation especially in areas like finance there is always a human in the loop whose job is to double check the automation. The day when this human finds errors in the machine there is going to be lot of noise. And if the day happens to be a quarterly or yearly closing/reporting there is going to be hell to pay once closing/reporting is done. Both the automation and developer are going to be hauled up (obviously I am exaggerating here).