a large portion of society, at least US society, can’t comprehend simple concepts

That's routinely overstated and deliberately misconstrued, often for the purpose of gutting social and economic institutions.

AI is leverage to this end, routinely. A very clumsy, inaccurate, and chinzy tool is inserted between people on the grounds that's they're too thick headed to communicate with one another.

The end result is more confusion, more frustration, and less coherence as people struggle to parse language that's been mangled into a 4th grade reading level.