> These are real harms happening right now due to alignment failures. They're just not harms to the future of the entire species

Okay, sure. You can also cut your hand off with a chainsaw. Everything you describe seems amply solvable with existing tort and liability law.

Customers are willingly entering into business with OpenAI. I don't see an argument for preventing OpenAI from "building these systems" just because their products are buggy.

Thank you, the "LLMs can do no wrong" bunch is ab exceptionally odd take from my point of view. LLMs are already causing all kinds of social issues, and the evidence of this exists in massive amounts. At least to me living in the US and the sue happy culture we have here, how much said AI providers have gotten away with so far surprises me.