I think the "AI" that they're driving towards is where the party secretaries call up the name of anyone who displeases them on an app, which is then transmitted to a commissariat that proceeds to nuke your digital life. With additional features, they can also drone you.

Then all the NPCs that are going along with all this just shrug their shoulders, look at each other and say, "Hey, AI, amirite? What're you gonna do?"

I guess what I'm saying is that, in the final analysis, whatever They choose to call "artificial intelligence" is in principle irrelevant as long as it forwards their agenda.