> Any "tool" which is that much smarter than you is no tool

I don't think this is accurate. Chainsaw is way more powerful than I am, yet it is definitely a tool. Computer is a tool too.

> I understand wanting to feel better and be optimistic about the future.

Historically, people who were pessimistic about the future, were very wrong. And this goes back centuries, if not millennia.

> Chainsaw is way more powerful than I am, yet it is definitely a tool.

That's because the relationship between a tool and its wielder is primarily in intelligence.