I'm no apologist but this statement doesn't ring for me. It's easy to shock yourself with electricity, is it a bad tool?

Electricity isn't a tool, it's nature. An unenclosed electrical plug which you had to be really careful when handling would be a bad tool, yes.

A tool is something designed by humans. We don't get to design electricity, but we do get to design the systems we put in place around it.

Gravity isn't a tool, but stairs are, and there are good and bad stairs.

Appreciate the perspective.

Of course it's bad. It's new. But it won't always be either of those things. I think "bad" is relative assessment and based on a build-up of knowledge, often over decades.

Electrical plugs and stairs are "good" only because that knowledge has been discovered and has been regulated. Expecting a tool to be literally and metaphorically fool-proof immediately upon discovery strikes me as pretty disingenuous.

In the case of AI, the most anti-AI crowd are often vehement with their fingers in their ears saying "it's not good and never will be, and shouldn't exist." To be fair, the pro-AI crowd are often raving as if all the kinks had already been worked out.

A knife then.

Most tools are dangerous in the hands of the inept or the careless. Don’t run with scissors.

A gun is a good tool easy to shoot yourself in the foot with