One idea might be to do an AI comp. There are several people on the forum that are interested in AI, but feel censured in the current competitions. An AI comp would attract only judges interested in AI specifically.
I’m not suggesting this is in a ‘go make your own comp and stay away’ kind of way, but more in a ‘parsercomp’ way. Parsercomp never detracted from IFComp, but it was a way to boost and honor a particular kind of game. An competition of games made with AI (and asking only for interested judges) could be a way for people to show off what AI can do without getting attacked by others.
I myself am AI-adverse and would not enter a game in the competition (as my primary reason for writing is to develop my own skills until I can prove to myself that I like my own writing and am proud of it even more than achieving public recognition, which is my second goal), but it could be worthwhile.