Yes hence my going straight to kill-bots. You won't starve to death, you'll get shot by a kill-bot for breaking some law on the books that permits it, like messing with the capitalist autocrat's stuff.
I'm not saying it's a guaranteed win, I'm saying I really don't see how AI is anything other than a net win for an autocrat with plenty of capital.
Sounds like something that can happen in the 3d world or China, not the West. If it were that easy people like Jeff Bezos would have a fleet of F-15s and nuclear missiles.
Also, there's more of "us" ("workers" which, btw, are knowledgeable about the infrastructure) than billionaires.