Quite. AI stands for removing the human wage bill.
In the 80s privatisation was focussed on 'efficiencies', meaning getting everyone to do more with the same, and removing protections to allow wages to be reduced over time. Thus the wage bill (which in many service industries is a large fraction) was reduced and profits increased to 'enable' CEO salaries to increase. Job done.
Now that has been pushed so far and wages have been suppressed so much that many folks can't even afford to live on them, and need state top-ups just to survive. So a new avenue is required. Hello AI. Only if you are in a niche area can you command a significant salary. But as technology moves so quickly if you don't keep looking for where the niche is moving to next even those who were so lucky will be chewed up and spit out.
I've no idea what the answer is, but I was thing about UBI again recently -- maybe the political pressure for that will increase until governments force large corporations to top slice some of their earnings help pay for it? Although, to be fair, looking backwards, they asked a Mr Ford how would anyone be able to afford his new fangled motor cars as he was increasing unemployment in horse-related jobs. And even I can afford one of these things today! So who knows?
I do know one thing: CEOs will never be poor.