It's a very good question. Our ownership class isn't exactly bright and they haven't been thinking past the next business quarter since the wolf of wall street 1980s. TBH I'm not quite sure if upper management of large corporations actually know what they're doing, but they're too powerful in top-down management hierarchies. Elon Musk has well proven he doesn't at all know what he's doing, but is too wealthy to be challenged or questioned.

Poetically, the story of replacing high-skill jobs with AI systems would end the same way The Brain Center at Whipples ended. It was a Twilight Zone episode about automation of factory jobs, in which the boss who fired everyone gets replaced (with Robbie the Robot).

In fact, if boards of directors are smart, they might look at automating all or part of the upper management process: There are serious decisions to be made at the top (e.g. managing project creep and setting reasonable deadlines based on scope; keeping Parkinson's Law in check on all fronts.

The thing is we can see from the outside that our typical XOs fail at effectively doing this kind of management. It was evident to me in the AAA game industry. Top management has routinely pushed up deadlines, and has routinely crunched their teams (which still doesn't help) and has routinely churned out underbaked, under-tested, buggy AF games that are really just fronts for micro-transaction vending (despite a $70 release price point), and all the pre-release hype only exacerbates the disappointment.

Right now AAA games are being given the private equity treatment, and we're watching dev teams get sinkholed like Toys 'R Us. I'd expect management computers could be programmed not to run the business for its own ego, and not to rely simply on what the company traditionally did.

That said, we're heading towards the reality of Ayn Rand's fantasy when all the takers have been disposed of, and the makers are left: to their horror, they really can't make stuff without the experience and knowhow of the working class, something John Deere discovered a few years ago when the execs decided to try their own hand at unskilled jobs, causing industrial disasters as a result.

Maybe after enough disasters, industrial and natural, we'll collectively come to understand why Chesterton's Fence needed to be there in the first place. Sadly it looks like it's still going to get worse before it gets better.