ZDF's editorial choice to use an AI presenter for a program about AI employment was not accidental framing — it was the argument, made structural. The broadcast asked audiences to weigh whether AI is colleague or competitor while demonstrating, in the anchor chair, that the network had already begun to answer that question . The live error that followed shifted the story from irony to evidence: the specific failure mode that critics of AI deployment cite — unverified output presented with the confidence of a trained professional — appeared on…