"As much as Silicon Valley would wish you to believe it, AI does not necessitate imperial conquest, nor could broad-based benefit from the technology ever emerge from such a foundation. Before the industry made a hard pivot into developing extraordinarily resource-intensive AI models, a full breadth of other types of AI flourished: small, specialized systems for detecting cancer, for reviving disappearing languages, for forecasting extreme weather events, for accelerating drug discovery. So, too, did ideas to develop new AI technologies, including those that didn't need much data at all, and those that required only mobile devices, not vast supercomputers, to train."
Maybe these "other types of AI" are sometimes used in bogus responses to criticism attempting to justify the actions of "AI" companies pursuing "imperial conquest"