'...the most effective AI champions "are definitely not the most technical people."' Absolutely my experience. If you understand how AI works and object, you're an incompetent Luddite to be ignored. If you don't know anything about it you're a 'champion' and a 'disruptor'. Knowledge is ignorance.
Ed ZitronCultist shit. A desperate last gasp operation to try and keep people believing, to bully them into acquiescing, to use social pressure to force a technology that will either continue to increase in cost and eventually will simply run out of cash to continue, truly corrosive to company culture.