In general, if you harm everyone in an instinctively obvious but factually hard-to-demonstrate way, there aren't any meaningful penalties. The situations in which "we all suffer" are the ones where people get away with it, eh?
Personifying it this way -- finding someone who is clearly injured -- is the only way to make progress.
"A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a
statistic." -- Stalin
Thanks for replying. I wonder, although, in US America for example, it
requires "demonstrable harm" to bring lawsuits etc, there is an
enduring concept of "the fabric of society" [0] in many legal
traditions. (I think it is likely examined by J.S. Mill) and even
appears in US congressional commentary [1]. In a digital context there
is some mileage here [3].
Might we see a successful lawsuit on the merits that the "mere
existence" of some technologies is an affront. "Artificial
Intelligence" is after all "artifice"
artifice: a clever trick, guile, deception, cunning, a skillful or
artful contrivance
Personifying it this way -- finding someone who is clearly injured -- is the only way to make progress.