Whose Future Counts, AI, Ageing and the Imaginaries Shaping Later Life Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly positioned as a solution to the challenges of ageing populations, with expectations of improved efficiency, independence, and service delivery. However, much of the current discourse focuses on whether older people will adopt AI, rather than examining how assumptions about ageing are embedded within the design and governance of AI-enabled systems (Cho et al., 2025). This paper advances a provocative argument: the Ageing Revolution for older people will be shaped less by their technological capability and more by how organisations interpret ageing, define problems, and encode these assumptions into sociotechnical systems. Drawing on literature from gerontology, digital inclusion, science and technology studies, the paper conceptualises AI as a mediating artefact that translates organisational priorities—such as efficiency, risk management, and cost control—into lived experiences of care, ethics, access, and participation (Jasanoff, 2015; Pinch, 1996). Empirical research highlights that older people are frequently treated as a homogeneous group (Friemel, 2016; Poli, 2021), while institutional arrangements increasingly position digital and AI-enabled channels as default routes for accessing essential services (Schou & Pors, 2019). Such arrangements can exacerbate exclusion. for those facing structural constraints. Adopting the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries, this paper identifies leverage points across design, governance and policy domains and outlines directions for research and practice that shift responsibility from individual adaptation to systemic change.