Everything can be justified. Even the most… miserable actions. Here is one: I let a kid drown, because I was busy saving a couple other kids that were drowning too. It’s a legit choice but it is also not ok, and I would not want to be in the shoes of anyone having to face that situation and to live with the aftermath.

Regarding AI, I don’t think the question should be whether it is justifiable or not. It’s a tool, it needs no justification beside filling a purpose like a hammer or even a gun do.

The question should be to decide if we’re OK a tool (that has been developed using humanity common knowledge) and that will deeply change all our lives and all of humanity future to be owned and controlled by a handful multi-billionaires that are already actively working their worst to make the world unfit to most of us. Or if we want for that tool to be ours and to be able to decide by ourselves what limit we want to put on its usage.

Well, at least that’s what I think.

I have no hate towards AI. No more than I hate a hammer (edit: or a gun) when someone use it to commit a murder. I’m much more critical of the way AI is not developed as a common good… which to me is unacceptable for a tool that only exists because because of our common knowledge.