Even though it's April fools, but Esperanto is great language in the context of automation. It has handful of clearly stated rules and no exceptions, thus language parsing. It is much more easy to parse natural language or automate text/speech generation, etc.

And Esperanto can act as linguistic neutral grounds for people of all languages.

Exactly. .. and can be neutral ground even for software :D

I feel like a true international language is a good idea, but Esperanto strikes me as such a Romance family language that it's hard to think of it as neutral.

Albeit a joke, I could read it OK and would likely learn more about Esperanto that way.