I think you make a great argument for making all these distinctions with regards to conversations with regulators, educators, and investors. People should be properly informed. The one scenario where I don't think it applies as much is in public discourse on social media: there I think, since we have word limits and limited attention spans, I don't think it is such a crime to reduce it all to "AI". There isn't always room to go into all the nuances, and I don't think it matters all that much if something like "edge AI" gets maligned along with generative AI in a post that is appealing to some sort of protest or push back on the industry in general. As I've said before, no flavor of AI is completely free of political, environmental, social, cultural, or psychological harms so it might be okay to sometimes lump them all in as tech to be weary of. Sure, if we get to the stage where there are angry mobs of people threatening all "AI" workers with pitch forks my opinion will evolve.