I disagree. I believe that AI is fundamentally destructive to society because it concentrates wealth into the hands of tech companies, removes jobs at a faster rate than previous automations, encourages human isolation by making people less reliant on each other, and produces fake "art" that floods the market and devalues human expression. I believe it is the prime example if evil incarnate.
The prime example of evil incarnate? Not, say, death camps and genocide?
I think it's generally an interesting technology with a lot of uncontroversially beneficial applications - things like voice transcription, drug discovery/response prediction, defect detection, language translation, tumor segmentation, weather forecasting/early warning systems, EEG decoding, malware detection, or OCR. No longer having to memorise FFMPEG commands also doesn't seem that evil to me.
Automation of tasks is something we all already benefit from constantly, like to keep food fresh without having someone collect ice from mountains, but I do agree with the concern that under capitalism it tends to lead to concentration of wealth. I think the productive path is along the lines of UBI or broader economic changes, allowing everyone to capture the utility, not through rejecting the technology itself and definitely not a hatemob against an open source developer from deciding to take a handy opt-in tool as a stand-in for evil itself.
What is evil is that AI reinforces technological development which in turn is already responsible for genocide against non-human animals, which in my opinion is on the same level as human genocide.
