The tech dystopia is already there and keep evolving, BUT is not technical, it's political. It's a dystopia selling crappy hw full of crappy proprietary crapware crap, but that's not an ML/"AI" thing, it's not even technical per se, it's just a choice of MOST OEMs of any sectors. It's a dystopia do their best to design anti-user systems, but they do not born with expert systems, they born with ANY kind of tech improperly used. It's a dystopia pushing a cash-less society forcing anyone to pass though private party servers to any monetary transaction. Offering PRIVATE public ID documents on proprietary connected crappy platforms like mobile macro-spy tools mostly known as "smart-phones".

That's the substantial dystopia, the "automation" on top of it is just a logic evolutionary step.