I work at a financial services company that is quite behind their peers tech-wise and watching the internal politics of AI has been fascinating.

Management seems to see this as their opportunity to catch up on the cheap.

Rather than having modern tech systems and properly staffed engineering department, let's just uh.. have non-technical people do AI hackathons! Also instead of automating excel jockey jobs with server side data pipelines, what if we.. you guessed it.. gave the excel jockeys AI!

I can imagine this playing out in a lot of industries where the underdogs think its a shortcut and yet..