About as common as the statement that AI technology is just a tool is the statement that AI is "inevitable", so we should all just give up and get with the program because the technology is definitely going to persist and we're definitely going to give up our thinking to the machines. This is obviously a thought-terminating cliche, but it's work digging into a little further: after all, given how much it's being said, it would be worth knowing exactly how and why it's wrong.
The idea of a technology being "inevitable" is a curious one: after all, nobody knows ahead of time what technologies are going to be developed or adopted by society, so you certainly can't say, for example, that workable nuclear fusion generation is inevitable: that would be foolish. Equally, in hindsight any technology that is widely adopted and popular could be said to be inevitable: you get no points for saying that the development of the iPhone was "inevitable", not the least because we don't actually know if that's true for the shape the technology took. It's probably true for something with the vague shape of the technology in question, but it could have taken any number of forms, including a bunch that we'd probably think are quite strange.
