I guess the phrase is Pragmatic Restitutionist

I was trying to figure out what the phrase was so I asked AI:

Me to Chat Bot: What is the definition of someone that is realistic about usage but wants retribution for the harms that were done in the act of getting the technology

Chat Bot:

There isn’t one settled term, but the stance has a clear shape.

Closest labels: AI realist / pragmatist covers the “I accept this technology is here and useful” half. Reparationist or accountability-minded covers the “those who caused harm should answer for it” half. Critical adopter or reluctant adopter is the combined version.

Me: what makes you think I was talking about AI?

I was thinking about AI but bundling it in with things like the Cotton Gin and interchangeable parts, the technology that was profited off the backs of theft, unethical labor practices and much more.

I do like this part of the answer that Claude returned with:

It’s the position that technologies and industrial systems often rest on harm, and that you can accept their permanence while demanding the harm be answered for.

Someone who accepts that a technology can’t be un-invented and that using it is often unavoidable or beneficial, but who holds that those who gained from the harm involved in producing it (slavery, dispossession, exploited labor, uncompensated taking) owe restitution to the people harmed or their descendants. Use is not treated as endorsement, and benefit is not treated as absolution.

Useful vocabulary:

• "Unjust enrichment" is the legal concept closest to this. You were enriched at another's expense, so you owe restitution regardless of intent.
• "Reparationist" or "restitutionist" names the demand side.
• "Beneficiary pays" is the principle: whoever still profits from the harm bears the cost of repair.
• "Pragmatic" or "realist" names the acceptance of irreversibility, with no call to abandon or dismantle the technology.

So now when people ask what is my stance on AI or I guess technology in general - I guess I'm a Pragmatic Restitutionist - for whatever that's worth.