It means centrists can conveniently forget about the promises they made to shrill, naive environmental activists which was getting hard to do anyways because it meant they had to pretend they didn’t hate environmental activism and that their lukewarm embrace of it was because… reasons…

Now those people can shrug and with a big smile gesture at AI and say “I am really sorry but we have to” and everyone just nods their head in resignation as if we weren’t killing the entire biosphere off for a vacuous series of scams nested inside of one another.

AI is invaluable to the ruling class just for accomplishing that alone.