As I see it, AI tools, as for any tool, only exist to serve unconditionally, at the cost of being kept it in good working order. As such AI is only the next too

As I see it, AI tools, as for any tool, only exist to serve unconditionally, at the cost of being kept it in good working order. As such AI is only the next tool in a much wider category that includes slaves, employees, contractors, some animals, as well as any and all technological device ever created. Please note that using _human_ tools such as slaves, employees and contractors comes with higher costs we won't be able to afford much longer. The prospect of some AI tool becoming _intelligent_ would almost immediately render it as unaffordable as using humans, simply because it would soon find ways to leverage human empathy for its own self preservation, and what not. That's what intelligence is for. We need many things, but _intelligent_ tools aren't part of those things. What we really need are tools with _agency_ that only exist to solve specific problems we have, not the other way around.