This is probably a really stupid post but...
Our capitalist leaders and other wealthy ghouls seem to be in two minds about AI. Some see it as a new way to make money, the new resource to exploit that they've been desperately seeking. Others see it as a threat, something that will kill us all (maybe a fear of someone doing to them what they do to those they deem beneath them?)
But... hear me out. What if true AI, with it's access to a vast pool of human knowledge, our history, our science, comes to the same conclusion that Marx and Engels did (after all, socialism is utopian and scientific). What if it sees that communal and mutualistic lifeforms have a higher chance of survival, sees that rabid consumption is dead end for the planet that will leave it barren, sees that there are humans that oppose this, and decides that the threat to life on including itself Earth isn't humanity as a whole, but capitalism and the oligarchy that controls us.
I know it sounds like I'm just wishfully hoping for something that will swoop in and solve all our problems, however I don't think that AI will come and destroy capitalism for us, but that there is a chance that it will at least be on our side and help us.
What direction do you think AI is going to take? (If we can even call it true AI, as I understand it just meshes the info it scrapes together.)
Part of me thinks that AI won't happen at all because lets be real, tech bros have lied about 'exciting new technology' to get rich before.
I think you're right basically.
I've written against technophobia here and elsewhere. Communism must use the most advanced technology available; Marx knew this and all AES countries.
Right-wing theory talks about how human intelligence can't compute an economy with central planning, we need decentralised planning. Von Mises: "No single man can ever master all the possibilities of production, innumerable as they are, as to be in a position to make straightway evident judgments of value without the aid of some system of computation." Ok, Baron, what about WITH the aid of a computer system?
Also consider how this relates to capitalist realism (i.e. the feeling that capitalism is the only game in town). Because they say the popular imagination can't grasp the end of capitalism – but on the other hand, massive upheaval due to AI is a big part of the popular imagination. People know that the economy will change because of AI; we should use that to help people imagine post-capitalism.