My semi-serious suggestion:
“That sounds great. I’m going to need to take a course in how to best utilitize AI, and the existing timeline will probably need to change. To really engage at expert level, I will go look at best-practices from experts. You’ll sign off on reasonable expenses, right?”
Then book a trip to [interesting place] and get it expensed. Then look for a new job while promising great things in a few months time, maybe a year or so.
“When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
I suspect that he is incapable of admitting to himself that he is in a hole, much less that he dug it himself.