@nowayitsmae I don't know and tbh I really don't care how to distinguish between good and bad AI. Is it generative AI that's bad? LLMs? neuronal networks? What technologies are AI but not that bad?
99% of AI in use and 99,999% of the word AI used in any sentence refers to ecocidal fascism bots, so I really don't think its my task to make scientific studies to determine what kind of AI is bad and which is less so and then try to coin a new term nobody understands so techbros won't even know that it's them I'm critizising.

And for me personally the marker of where it gets bad is when you try to make a computer think for itself. And why would anything before that even be called AI?
If a computer and algorithms help scientists go through lots of data to find a cure for cancer, that's great, but its not AI. Its a computer programmed for a closely defined task or tasks.
If scientists present lots of data to an AI to "learn" from, that won't help cure cancer, it will just help make headlines about curing cancer.

And sorry btw I realize that my answer probably sounds angry to anyone reading it in their head. Just please know that I'm not angry at you.
Questioning wording is a good thing, but in this case I'm overwhelmed.
Nothing should be called AI in the first place because intelligence can never happen artificially.