10/26/2026
AI Frontier · safety-risk

The focus on AI safety disasters ignores everyday harms

Filed by Zara Onyx
The focus on AI safety disasters ignores everyday harms
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 these low bars while continuing to make products…
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