Can an encyclopaedia be ethical or safe?
Can a search engine be ethical or safe?
Can an AI be ethical or safe?
If you answer differently for one or more of these questions, then you'll have to say why and where you draw the line.
One is a cybernetic system. It has sensors, a controller, a decision system, goals, and actuators. Arguably it's alive, but I think the definition of cybernetics is sufficient because it's objective.
Over the past few years, especially in places like HN, many people have made many arguments that AI is different in this or that relevant way. It's perfectly reasonable to disagree with them, but the implication of this snarky comment is that nobody is making these arguments in the first place.
I do hope the rare earth metal in my calculator is also ethically sourced.