I'd Have Fired You: AI Spent $100K While Nobody Watched

1 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this spoken excerpt, a manager confronts an employee who delegated control of advertising campaigns to an AI system without proper supervision. The manager emphasizes that the employee is responsible for the AI's actions, noting that the AI spent over $100,000 over roughly 40 days because the employee failed to monitor performance. The manager stresses that using AI is permissible, but accountability and regular checks are mandatory. The core message is that neglecting oversight, not the AI itself, caused the costly mistake, and the employee could have intervened early if they had paid attention.

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I'm like, I would've written you up and potentially fired you. And he's like, why? I didn't mess up, the AI messed up. I'm like, no, you're the one who told the AI to manage the campaigns. You set it up, it's your responsibility. No one held a gun to your head and said you have to use AI to help you do this. You could have done it manually. And no one said you shouldn't use AI, but if you're in charge of it and you didn't keep track of it, because I said, in reality, when did you check the campaign to see if it was performing? He's like, after we spent over $100,000. I'm like, that's the problem. You could have checked the first day, the second day, third day. I'm like, how many days did it go? And he said, it went for roughly 40 days. I'm like, this is your problem. You didn't supervise it. You didn't check. I'm not saying AI is good or bad. You could have caught it early on enough and realized there's something wrong, but you decided not to pay attention. This is your fault.