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Something like the SEO industry. If AIs affect search, procurement/RFP processes, hiring, investment etc, then there will be a burgeoning industry in how to best present yourself or your business in a way that 'pleases' these AIs.

Of course, it's just as likely that this work itself will be done by AIs. You'll just set some goals and constraints and hope your AI is able to negotiate some good deals for you. The better the AI, the better the deal. It takes some smarts to optimise compute resources, electricity costs, training datasets etc, so you might as well have some AIs look at managing that too.

Pretty soon you find that you've put out an RFP to supply point of sale terminals to all your retail outlets, and you've caused a nuclear war over the control of mining rights to rare earth metals in a country thousands of miles away. But that's nothing, because a fleet of drones was apparently launched on your behalf to head out to the asteroid belt and net a few mineral-rich rocks to bolster the manufactory beside the datacentre you apparently now own, which is built on top of (and out of) half of Australia. You didn't specify in your original RFP that you didn't want any rocks to splash down in the Indian Ocean, and the fleet was careful to check that none of your outlets or regular customers would be affected by the tsunamis that claimed upwards of two billion lives in the aftermath.

You look up from the contract you were about to sign, heart racing from the vivid simulation your personal AI has just played out on your holospecs.

"Perhaps we better include some liability insurance?" you suggest.

"Don't worry, we have an AI for that."