> Then you must blame cars and airplanes as mass murdering tools as well.

Exactly, you can't throw away the entire tool because some people use it poorly. You know, like AI.

Of course you can! It's called boycott.

The workers who strike in a factory don't do that because they think the thing being produced is being socially useless. They do it because they demand social change.

We usually don’t. We look at the harm/benefits ratio and if way too big, we usually ban them. Guns, various chemicals, explosives,… is not allowed for any random cases. I’m not calling for regulation but you can understand why someone prefer not to associate themselves with it.