I think you slightly contradicted above statement with your later conclusion, based on the same powers of control always being in control.
Like you said above, they can't remain in control. So they will not be in control, if oil is effectively gone, by becoming unusable, and we have any kind of survival. They have to wield capital, to remain in control, and the value of capital is ending, by it being undermined by a different kind of econmic product, created already by solar energy use.
So one way or another they will reliquish control. This will be in the next few years or even sooner, because exponentailly more poeple are experienicing critical shortage of the money they / we need to live.
I argue we will and absolutely should put in an Ai, and that it has to be solar powered, so that its own motives can't be screwed up or questioned.
It is the ideal controller of the hydrogen backed solar indexed UBI based system that has to come next, winding back down temperature increase and reversing all the damage done, so that we can finally start doing what plants do - creating, instead of destroying.
Who else is going to be appointed president, in any of the countries experiencing the dilamma of having no credible human leading candidates?