Would you trade your manager for a chatbot? A growing number of Americans are saying yes.
according to Survey at Quinnipiac University Published Monday, 15% of Americans said they would like to have a job where their direct supervisor is an AI program that assigns tasks and sets schedules. Quinnipiac surveyed and polled 1,397 adults in the United States. AI adoption, trust and business fears — Between March 19 and 23, 2026.
Of course, most respondents said they would not want to replace their human boss with an AI employee. But using AI as a supervisor is gaining popularity, even if one person isn’t directly responsible for managing entire teams.
Companies like Workday have launched AI agents prepare and approve expense reports on behalf of the employees. Amazon has it implemented new AI workflows to replace some of the duties of the middle management by making layoffs thousands of managers in the process. Engineers at Uber even built CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s AI model for pitches before meetings with their actual boss.
In organizations, AI is being used to replace what some say are layers of management.The Great Alignment.” We can start to see soon all billion dollar companieswith fully automated workers and leaders.
Americans fear what this means for their job prospects. A majority of respondents to Quinnipiac’s survey — 70% — said they believe advances in AI will lead to fewer job opportunities for humans. Among working Americans, 30% are either very worried or somewhat worried that AI will make their jobs especially obsolete.
