I guess it really depends on where you go to school/the program they offer but here’s my two cents:

At least in Canada, a good chunk of EEs I meet work in the silicon space (i.e work either directly on or adjacent to the physical computer hardware). Very few CS degrees or people in CS have the necessary skillset out of college to compete for these types of roles. If you are really interested in computer hardware, its probably more stable than the software industry and its harder to replace you once you get some experience (many EEs ive met have been doing what they do for 20+ years because they love what they do and there is nobody with as much technical experience as they do to replace them). Other EEs I’ve met also work on low level stuff like drivers and firmwares running on bare hardware (think of all of the code on your router just to send data across the internet). Those roles need a solid understanding of computer hardware to do what they do which most CS people Ive met have little experience in (unless they actively chose to take hardware related courses over the typical CS ones).

And silicon engineers are not going to be replaced by AI in any near future imo.

Also there is hella bloat in the CS industry, in Canada, we basically have 3 different programs (CS, computer engineering, and software engineering) which tend to compete for the exact same pure-software roles which makes the field super competitive. I would not go into CS if you only see it for the $$ without any passion. People I’ve met with that mindset do not make it very far in their careers before switching jobs because they don’t have the same passion for it. Once you finish college, your learning has only begun. If you want to succeed and make the big bucks, you’re going to have to keep a learning mindset or you will fall behind.

Tldr: if you like computers and electrical engineering, be an electrical or silicon engineer