The thing about C-suite executives is they usually have short tenures, however the management levels below them are often cozy in their bureaucracy, resist change, often trying to outlast the new management.

I actually argue that AI will therefore impact these levels of management the most.

Think about it, if you were employed as a transformational CEO would you risk trying to fight existing managers or just replace them with AI?

Generally yes. The more power one holds in an organization the more safe they are from automation.

Automating away shareholders can't come soon enough.

The make the decisions so I doubt they will soon themselves to be automated away. Their main risk will be that nobody can buy their products once everything is automated.

I wonder if capitalism and democracy will be just a short chapter in history that will be replaced by something else. Autocratic governments seem to be the most prevalent form of government in history.