Consider going down that path and write more about the future than current affairs. Half of the post was a just a critique of human behaviour today backed with numbers, data and projections. This leads the narrative open to questions such a instead of limiting consumption now, why would the AI wait 50 years to do something so drastic about it?

I'm well read in the area of apocalyptic and post apocalyptic fiction. Generally these works of art speak more of the event or aftermath than the cause which is just a minor detail left for the reader to think about.