This is why AI is the perfect management Rorschach test.

To management (out of IC roles for long enough to lose their technical expertise), it looks perfect!

To ICs, the flaws are apparent!

So inevitably management greenlights new AI projects* and behaviors, and then everyone is in the 'This was my idea, so it can't fail' CYA scenario.

* Add in a dash of management consulting advice here, and note that management consultants' core product was already literally 'something that looks plausible enough to make execs spend money on it'