There has been a high-pitch furor around the dangers of AI for tech companies in recent weeks. BT CEO Allison Kirkby said that the use of AI chatbots could lead to more job cuts than expected, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said AI will reduce the firm’s corporate workforce, and Apple published a paper finding flaws in mainstream LLMs. In these very high-profile examples, AI is the easy target, often taking the hit when other motives are at play. In a recent FT interview, BT’s Kirkby said that previously announced job cut figures “did not reflect the full potential of AI,” and there “may be an opportunity for BT to be even smaller by the end of the decade.” This is…