The article, while talking about some very real problems, seems to be completely unrelated to the question of whether or not AI is likely to have that capability in the near/mid future (which is what the title implies).
No, the article discusses how “AI” and other machine learning and algorithmic systems are used in practice - to surveil, dispossess, and harm those in whomever the powerful deem as out groups, and how this is done under the guise of idealist appeals about mass benefit, akin to “curing cancer.”