AI: What is the future for executive recruitment companies?

Developers of new technologies, scaremongers, pessimists and people with something to sell are always predicting the demise of the recruitment industry and the end for recruitment consultants. We're all going to be replaced by robots. Some would say that the recruitment industry has been at death's door for at least twenty years. Reality indicates that people are rarely in a job for life, and job moves mean active candidates in the job market. Particularly in management consulting, good candidates are constantly seeking new challenges.