AI is incapable of recognizing irony? Or perhaps sarcasm?

From https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/us/wesleyan-university-ends-legacy-admissions.html?

…Mr. Roth said he believed most alumni, though not all, would agree that legacy admissions are no longer appropriate.

“I’m wagering, I guess,” he said, with a hint of uncertainty, “that Wesleyan alumni will be proud of that, and they want it to be a place that doesn’t give unearned privileges to applicants.”