Well, somebody has to go to jail if catastrophic decisions are made and you can't jail AI. We very often see CEOs being jailed in the real world, so the pay is actually a very fair compensation for the risk.
You hire a bum for 6 figures to rubberstamp things with a slight risk of going to jail.
In violation of a comical number of laws
> We very often see CEOs being jailed in the real world
Where "very often" means "almost never?"
This is the actual answer to the whole question - accountability