My firm just announced an AI tool that does 80% of what our junior staff do and nobody is talking about what happens to those people

I am a senior accountant at a mid-size firm. Last week our managing partner announced we are rolling out an AI platform that automates reconciliation, basic report generation, and variance analysis. He framed it as a productivity tool. Nobody asked what happens to the four junior accountants whose entire role is currently those three things.

I am not junior. I am probably fine for now. But I remember being junior, and I got good at my job by doing those exact tasks for three years. If we automate the entry-level work, where do the next generation of senior accountants come from? How do they build the judgment you only get from doing the boring work first?

I am not asking whether AI will take jobs in general. I am asking specifically about the pipeline problem in skilled professions. Has anyone thought seriously about this?