Yeah, taking AI out of the context of tomato's comment makes you think it's not already the case, but it's been the case since, like, wealth and connections and status became a thing, if not earlier.

Back on topic, I don't think having real skills that you can leverage without AI is going to completely lock you out of a job or something. For now, it is pretty gloom, but I'm seeing more and more cases in my company where AI leads to nearly catastrophic failures because people use it mindlessly and generate too much busywork of others, who don't bother checking it that thoroughly, leading to really bad consequences for everyone in a couple of weeks since the slopping commenced.

Of course, it's happening because the upper-management has been pushing hard for everyone to use AI for everything.

Maybe companies turn away from AI because their average AI user does more harm than good with it. If I can't have a world where all the tech that's powering AI goes to something where it actually has benefits (which is a few scientific fields and applications like protein folding or some shit, if that hasn't been proven wrong, too), I hope I can at least have a world where AI has disappointed the decision makers enough so that it becomes a niche expensive toy for morons with money that are ridiculed and shunned.