Would you change your manager for a chatbot? A growing number of Americans say yes.
According to a Quinnipiac University Survey Published on Monday, 15% of Americans say they would be willing to have a job where their direct supervisor was an artificial intelligence program that assigned tasks and set schedules. Quinnipiac surveyed 1,397 adults in the United States and conducted the survey, which included questions about AI adoption, confidence and workplace fears — between March 19 and 23, 2026.
Of course, most respondents said they wouldn’t be willing to trade their human boss for an AI people manager. But using AI as a supervisor is gaining popularity, even if one is not directly in charge of managing entire teams of people.
Companies like Workday have launched artificial intelligence agents that can submit and approve expense reports on behalf of employees. Amazon has implemented new AI workflows replace some of the responsibilities of middle management, dismissing thousands of managers in the process. Engineers at Uber even built an AI model from CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Give presentations before meetings with your real boss.
Across organizations, AI is being used to replace layers of management in what some call “The great flattening.” Soon we will be able to begin to see entire billion-dollar companies from onewith fully automated employees and executives.
Americans are wary of what that means for their job prospects. The majority of respondents in the Quinnipiac survey (70%) said they believe advances in AI will lead to a decrease in the number of job opportunities for people. Among employed Americans, 30% were very or somewhat concerned that AI would specifically make their jobs obsolete.
