This is well put, and I've worked places where this has happened to customers. Our current domain is in augmenting humans with AI, which avoids the problem you'

This is well put, and I've worked places where this has happened to customers. Our current domain is in augmenting humans with AI, which avoids the problem you're describing because it doesn't take humans out of the loop at all, but just makes them more efficient at what they were already doing by cutting out a lot of work. So jobs that would take an operator 30 minutes now take 10 because the AI has done most of the usual rote work.