From an AI safety perspective, the language used isn’t that important. An analogy might be asking what kind of hammer is good and safe for building a bomb. Some hammers might let you get the job done easier and/or faster, but ultimately you can do it with any of them (and get into long arguments with hammer fans on which one is the best). Similar to the hammer example, “powerful” isn’t a meaningful quality either; is a hammer with a nail extractor thing more “powerful” than a heavier one you can swing harder?

There is lots of nuance, of course, but it comes down to “best tool for the job” rather than one being more “powerful” than another.