Hasn't basically the premise of all this been the standard knowledge at the time 1984 was written (which if I recall was like 1949), Only thing AI does is, lessens the people needed to do it.

Authoritarian governments don’t need superintelligent AI. They need AI that’s just good enough to monitor more people, automate more decisions, and scale censorship at a fraction of the cost. The real danger isn’t AI becoming all powerful: It’s making authoritarianism dramatically cheaper and more efficient.

Would love to be a paid researcher getting to state the obvious