- The common phrase "AI is just a tool, it matters how you use it" is criticized as simplistic and misleading, ignoring broader ethical, environmental, and societal impacts.
- Tools, including AI, are not neutral; they shape human behavior, culture, and environments through their design, as illustrated by Heidegger's concept of 'enframing' and the example of a chair dictating posture.
- AI risks flattening human experience by removing meaningful struggle and pain, which are central to creativity, critical thinking, and personal growth, akin to a tool-as-a-drug that numbs humanity.
- The environmental cost of AI is significant, contributing to climate change and resource depletion, requiring policy interventions for sustainability.
- Modern AI models are built on large-scale data theft, lacking credit and provenance, raising ethical concerns about economic justice and the exploitation of human art and knowledge.
- AI poses an existential threat by promoting algorithmic indifference, but contact with it can spur vigilance to reclaim human essence and align tools with sacred values through policy and resistance.