Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI The accidental job executioners People are worried that they're building AI tools that will let bosses lay off their coworkers. Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI By 2026-05-07T08:38:01.222Z Matt Pressberg didn't set out to build a job-killing AI tool. He and his business partner at Hype Lab, a small PR firm, spun up an AI agent they call Maria to help them draft pitches and monitor their inboxes. Their robotic "competent but strategic intern" lets the two-man team punch above their weight. Recently, however, a larger PR firm he occasionally works with approached him about building and deploying a Maria-like product at their company — with explicit intentions. "That was pretty much, 'We want to use AI agents to displace employees,'" Pressberg, who lives in Florida, says. What was meant to be an internal tool could now be a "harbinger of doom for a lot of people." His conundrum is becoming familiar to an increasing number of workers.…