Why do hammers put up with being smashed into nails all day?
because once you're a hammer, you're just biding your time to smash a skull.
they don't. like every thing they wear away in some proportion to their use and replicate in some proportion to their usefulness to other things.
AIs are (going to be) agents, not tools.
because once you're a hammer, you're just biding your time to smash a skull.