> Source?

All the technological innovations since humanity has had this characteristic and I don't see why AI would be different.

> Also, you seem to be (probably intentionally) mixing up who's an elite and who's not

I think it is convenient to put oneself in the non-elite bucket to justify anger at the "true" elites - the ones just above you. This is actually a well studied phenomena and almost all revolutions followed the same pattern. As an example, Soviet revolution was largely coordinated by the intellectual elite by overthrowing the Tsar who was the literal elite.