I'm skeptical of the actual viability of "A.I." (probably more of a buzzword rather than actual A.I.), but many companies are increasingly seeing AI as a holy grail. I think the default expectation is that tech companies and other companies will lay off the diversity hires to save money, but I honestly don't believe that.
DIE initiatives are so deeply entrenched in Western companies that I firmly believe that they will lay off the competent workers and keep the diversity hires on-board, competency be damned. This is especially true for all of the H-1B Visa pajeets. They will view AI as a way to contain any competency shortfalls and will continue to pursue DIE in the workplace. Cheap labor Pajeets will continue to replace competent workers in tech and their will be a greater push for diversity hires in every department.
I'm being overly-pessimistic here, but I don't see how A.I. would lead to the downfall of DIE initiatives in any capacity.
AI, at the stage it's at, can only really replace mostly worthless jobs like journalists or something.
The very people companies want to keep for DIE initiatives are the only people AI can replace, which is why there's no mass layoffs or initiatives to implement AI to replace these people.
To expound on this further:
Most industries that aren't digital, social or financial actually have to produce some tangible physical thing.
Those industries are still staffed heavily by middle age white men, because we're the ones actually getting the work done.
On the plus side, the inverse of this means that the government will be easy to beat in the future, because they've almost reached the critical mass of incompetence.
An event horizon, if you will. Of a... Black (w)Hole.
I'll see myself out.