Artificial Intelligence – oddly local children accepted digital refinement tool (4,8)
I believe the answer is:
nail clippers
'artificial intelligence oddly local children accepted' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'digital refinement tool' is the wordplay.
'digital refinement' becomes 'nail' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'tool' becomes 'clippers' (clippers is a kind of tool).
'nail'+'clippers'='NAIL CLIPPERS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for nail clippers that I've seen is " digital processors".)