@simon @carlana this strikes closer to the heart of my objection. A lot of insiders—not practitioners as such, but marketers & executives—use "AI" as the label not in spite of its confusion with the layperson's definition, but *because* of it. Investors who vaguely associate it with machine-god hegemony assume that it will be very profitable. Users assume it will solve their problems. It's a term whose primary purpose has become deceptive.