> I don't think AI is the cause, it's merely the mechanism that is speeding up what has already been happening.

I think the technical term is "throwing gas on the fire." It's usually considered a really bad thing to do.

> I am not a fan of how AI is shaping our society, but I don't place blame on it for these instances. It is in my opinion that AI is speeding up these aspects.

If someone throws gas on a fire, you can totally blame them for the fire getting out of control. After all, they made it much worse! Like: "we used to have smouldering brush fire that we could put out, but since you dumped all that gas on it, now we will die because we have a forest fire raging all around us."