A device leaves you a user who is often the one being used, while an instrument you have practised on makes you something else.

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• AI should be treated as an instrument to play rather than a tool to use, because there is no purpose to better machines if they do not also produce better humans. FCFrank Chimero20 Oct 2025similar wording
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