This a great summary of our dire situation.

Can we save ourselves? Or will humanity die out, unable to pivot with the climate disruption that we as a species set in motion?

I understand your point about AI offering disruptive applications that might lead toward an equalization of human labor so that localized human restorative efforts can save us, but the systems that make AI possible are complex.

Nature will rework the habitat we live in. There will be new realities and truths to learn in order to survive. Bringing AI in as an organizing overlay into our struggles to adjust would be an unprecedented challenge both in terms of technological prowess and for social integration.

Human legacy structures built up during our voraciously destructive industrial age will collapse; and there will continue to be an accelerating transition from what was once a diverse biosphere (for all life) to a less diverse hot earth.

And even when human populations globally fall out of population overshoot it will probably take millennia to trend back to the ideal “just right” environment we humans so stupidly destroyed with greed, hubris, and fossil fuels.