Aside from an unverifiable and not-so-important claim early on, you make a lot of excellent points, particularly about language.

Many people I know these days seem convinced that the map is more important than the territory.

A Zen master might respond by showing that person a picture of her staff, and then hitting them over the head with the staff. "I refute him thus!"

I would never have expected this of myself, but I'm mostly against AI, not because of mythical AI rebellions, but because it's yet another cash grab by huge, sociopathic companies, and yes, also because of how it degrades interpersonal interactions.