AI does generate societal damage, but that’s mostly because of how companies abuse it and less because of the technology itself.

Don’t excuse the technology. It was created to be useless and wasteful. Every question on an AI engine helps burn down entire forests. Every AI that is kept awaken and serving dries the lagoons and rivers of an indigenous tribe, if not a small town. Every model is built upon the sustained theft of art, code and identity, to the point the main financers are proud of it and using it as legal justification.

People who are evil, made a tool for evil, and those using the tool of evil are doing little more than enabling evil. Number must go up.