> I am aware of that - I was adding something along the lines of: I don’t think people care if we deliver Alices any more.

That's irrelevant to the goal of the program - they care. Once they stop caring, they'd shut that program down.

Maybe it would be replaced with a new program that has the goal of delivering Bobs+AI, but what would be the point? I mean, the article explained in depth that there is no market for the results currently, so what would be the point of efficiently generating those results?

The market currently does not want the results, so replacing the current program with something that produces Bobs+AI would be for... what, exactly?

There’s no market for the results, but there was a market for Alices, because they were the only people who could produce similar results historically. Now maybe there’s less of a market for Alices. Yes, maybe that means the program disappears.