Thanks for your reply. Here are my rebuttals:

Is AI killing the planet, or is capitalism and addiction to fossil fuels?

Capitalism was already killing the planet, but the rush to invest in AI has demonstrably accelerated it.

If AI was 100 renewable and run based on community consent, would it still be “killing the planet”?

No. But thats not the scenario we are in.

In what way does AI “steal” in any way more significantly than an artist uses another artist for inspiration or a coder uses another open source project for their code?

Because artists are people with consciousness and feeling and the capability for novel thought. AI is not. Believing it’s doing the same thing as human thinking is being suckered by the hype.

How does AI widen inequality worse than it has been already, and is that solely the result of AI or is it just a product of capitalism?

This is a big one, but without guardrails it’s definitely poised to hurt working people and enrich the powerful, which therefore drives further inequality (which yes, was already bad as a product of modern capitalism). And those guardrails are not in place, and will not be put into place if we just follow along as they want us to.