Not to discredit anything you wrote, but:

"I'm still seeing Ai mostly as a tool/tech, not something that takes on an agency of it's own."

I find that to be a highly ironic thing. It basically says AI is not AI. Which we all know it is not yet, but then we can simply say it: The current crop of "AI" is not actually AI. It is not intelligence. It is a kind of huge encoded, non-transparent dictionary.