AI can be extraordinarily useful, but they're only letting the general public and even business get the scraps that fall from their table. 99% of that capacity will be for government (or trans government) entities to monitor and ultimately control people. It's really for the surveillance and control state.
So, when I was younger, the focus was on systems like "Echelon" that reportedly recorded every phone call, e-mail, etc. Problem back in the day was ... OK, great, but who has the manpower to listen to all that junk.
Enter AI .. problem solved.
That's really what this is all about. I benefit tremendously from AI, but, as I said on another thread, everything they put out there has a "Double Effect", where they "sell" the stuff to the public based on the good benefits of it, but then are actually interested in the understated evil benefits. Take Flock cameras. If you can save some child from being kindnapped by traffickers, or prevent other crimes, that's great ... and, if you aren't doing anything wrong, then "what do you have to hide?" ... and ... we can just pass laws to make sure they're not abused. Yeah, right. When they introduce the next crisis, they'll be monitoring your movements during Plandemic 2.0, makings you're wearing a mask at all times, very possibly even indoors (like in 1984), and not only monitoring but controlling. "This guy isn't wearing his mask. Don't let him start his car." or "This guy didn't get the jab. Prevent his account from working at the grocer store." or "This guy said something mean about Netanyahu on X. He doesn't get his Universal Basic Income payment this week." THAT is what all this is about. Given the extraordinary amounts of money they're spending on all this infrastructure, there's no way it every pays for itself. But that's not what it's all about.