They are pretty up front about that when they hire from what I was told by someone who went through it: that you have to “be okay” with your job not exisiting in the next couple of years
Automating away the tedious parts of your work is something sysadmins and programmers have been doing for a long time. For example see:
If they said that to me I'd assume they mean because the company will run out of cash and collapse.