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Tiny fist shaking intensifies.
This sort of hyper-pedantic dictionary-authoritarianism is not how language works. Nor is your ridiculous "well I can just define it however I like then" straw-man. These are terms with a long history of usage.
But you have to admit that there is great confusion that arises when the general populace hears "AI will take away jobs". People literally think that there's some magical thinking machine. Not speculation on my part at all, people literally think this.