A lot of people I think mistakenly assume technology, capitalism, etc. are fundamentally evil because they’ve been used to do awful things… but they are just amoral powerful tools. One needs to have a sense of ethics, quality, and responsibility to make good decisions in their use. Deeper basic scientific knowledge also allows for more accurate predictions of the consequences and risks- enabling more responsible actions.
I don't thin it is good or evil but neither do I subscribe to the instrumentalist view that it is a tool. It does grow with a deterministic force that is partly beyond human control. (Various mechanisms make it so in a large populace). So, I don't agree that it's "just a tool" either.
