The focus on AI safety disasters ignores everyday harms

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by MIT Technology Review at 26 Oct, 09:01 UTC

Consider what passes for success in technology policy. An AI company promises that its chatbot will not encourage suicide. A social media platform makes it more difficult for children to buy fentanyl. These are important protections, and they should have existed all along. But companies can clear…