Words change over time. Plenty of words have changed meaning in my lifetime to become less formal than they once were. And I guarantee I used to be this pedanti

Words change over time. Plenty of words have changed meaning in my lifetime to become less formal than they once were. And I guarantee I used to be this pedantic about some of them, particularly around the usage of grammar and punctuation, and in some cases am still very stubbornly pedantic even though it’s clear the world has moved on and I’m the only one left on the hill. The phrase “artificial intelligence” is the same here. You may still die on this hill, but the world has moved on. AI has become overloaded to mean a wide variety of things and not just the “dangerous” generalized terminator robot you’re envisioning. One strategy to cope is to come up with a new word and define it as you’d like, being careful to not overload it.