No it isn't. My salary won't increase if the AI budget reduces, or if the AWS bill goes down, or if the board decide not to do a retreat to Davos this year, or anything else. My salary is very strictly limited by the salary budget. The only impact of a reduced AI budget would be an increase in dividends to shareholders, but that would have a second order effect of making the company less valuable because our competitors would be racing ahead of us.
There’s only so much money to go around. Wouldn’t a big new expense affect how much is available for the salary budget?
I’m sure it differs between companies but there seems to be a big trend of laying off workers while pouring more and more money into AI.
If every company is using AI to compete they’ll still get the same slice of the pie but they’ll spend more money on AI and have less money for salaries