people won’t be able to extract information or do certain tasks without AI help

That’s literally the mindset that drug dealers operate from: give a few, initial doses at a loss to get the person addicted. Then jack up the price because the addict can’t function normally without the product.

their bosses are convinced that they need to be using AI because it will change everything.

What the bosses mean by this:

we’re really hoping to save a ton of money in the long run by firing humans.