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.
It won't be because the powers of capital won't ask it to help solve the right problems. They will ask things like "how do we make the GDP higher" or "how do I make my company more profitable". Communism is not the answer to these questions, capitalism is.
Nobody with the power to make change will ask an AI "how do I reduce human suffering" or anything remotely like that, and an AI with all the right answer is useless without some way to execute on those answers