AI safety focus overlooks everyday online harms — SkimNews
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- AI company promised that its chatbot would not encourage suicide, with the piece calling the protection important but one that should already have existed.
- Social media platform made it more difficult for children to buy fentanyl, an everyday online harm the source contrasts with the focus on AI safety disasters.
Why it matters: For children who use social media to buy fentanyl, the platform's purchase barrier is a direct safeguard, while the chatbot pledge targets encouragement of suicide. The source's verdict that both protections should already exist challenges a policy culture that treats spectacular AI successes as more meaningful than routine digital harms.
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