AI has a lot of drawbacks (environmentally, politically, educationally, etc) but it isn't going away - ever.
So, we need to stop tilting at windmills and act to solve the problems. Perhaps legislate that AI servers must be hosted entirely with solar/wind? Perhaps laws that ensure they can't be used if they answer any of a set of several thousand important questions incorrectly. Perhaps legislate that their use in impersonating humans is illegal.
There are ways to make this better that arent simply impossible.