Technological capability, on its own, is not enough to create Bitcoin privacy. Unless users and society actively defend and demand privacy, it will die. From "The Privacy Issue".
Bitcoin is built on the principles of free association, and market incentives pushing people into a consensus arising out of that free association between participants. People seem to have forgotten that.
As artificial intelligence grows, so do attempts to control it. But, if we can differentiate the real risks from the fake risks, this technology could be used to encourage diversity of thought and ideas.