AI Tools, Not Gods: Why Artificial Intelligence Hype Threatens Global Governance-and How to Fix It

AI is not magic.

It's not a god, a demon, or a sentient mind plotting its next move.

It's a set of tools and infrastructure we build, deploy, and should control.

From Silicon Valley hype to political speeches, the way we talk about AI turns it into something supernatural-and those stories are shaping the laws we live by.

In AI Tools, Not Gods, Caroline De Cock takes readers inside the myth-making machine, revealing the four seductive narratives that are warping AI policy, and shows how to repla...