Scenario: a well-placed middle manager has a mid-life crisis and authorizes a skunkworks project to have an AI surreptitiously replace them while they travel the world. When other managers discover this, they demand their own AI surrogates rather than reporting the scheme to the C-suite. When this is eventually exposed, FB collapses in a firestorm of controversy, only for its investors to quietly start a bunch of new companies intentionally based on AI management. Eventually Accelerando, I guess.