It is just a weapon

Another useless AI rant, me screaming into the void, feel free to ignore. When we see someone brandishing a knife, we tend to go "They have a weapon." Then they use it to cut a rope or open a letter. Or just cut some bread. Then we go "It's a tool." When we see someone holding a firearm, we immediately go "They have a weapon!" But then it turns out that it was a flaregun, which they fired in a forest to help the helicopter pilot to find the person in trouble. Then we go "It's a tool." Now pedantics would say "Weapon is a tool, it's just meant for causing harm." But I digress. We have a lot of these type of items. Hammers for example we perceive as tool first, weapon second. Now to make my point: When I look at "AI" stuff, I very commonly see a weapon. It's used to hurt women and minorities Artificial Intelligence Is Not Gender-Neutral Women in the age of AI-enabled disinformation It's made on top of unfair labor OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less…