Adapting implies you are still a part of the environment though. AI is on a trajectory to replace you and take you out of the environment.

AI is on a trajectory to replace people who do not effectively use AI with people that do

That is the bait and switch. The end goal is that you are out of the equation. Your perceived effectiveness at using AI as an exchange of labor diminishes over time to the point that you become irrelevant.

Who has that end goal?? Who is going to direct the AI if only the CEO is left in the organization? The CEO will never actually do it , and will always need someone who can and will do it. I just can’t see a grand plan to take humans out of the equation entirely.

that most definitely is a plan, make no mistake about it. but as mike tyson famously said, “every has a plan until they get punched in a mouth” :)

this is certainly a possibility but human beings and societies as a whole adapt