First of all, AI is a tool. But unlike a nuke the workers can have access to it, at least to some degree, allowing people to use it to deal with capitalists' AI.
The real issue is not only that AI doesn’t work as advertised, but the impact it will have before this becomes painfully obvious to everyone.
The impact on manual labor will take a while though (because it takes time to build all the robots that will be needed), so as everyone that can WFH gets automated forever all these people can be brought to our side to revolutionize society. It's eitheir that or hunger after all...