Assuming this is being sold to companies other than strictly self-improvement apps, how can you consider this to be an ethical thing to have created?
Because we don't sell to apps that would hurt people. See manifesto on usedopamine.com/team/index.html.
~100 years ago, the most frequent causes of death in the US were pathogens for which we barely had a name. Pnemonia, Flu, Cholera, Fevers. And it was only after we developed a rigorous technology of the body (modern medicine) did we lift millions of people out of suffering simultaneously.
Today, if you are under 50, you're mostly like going to die of opiates. Over 50? Type-2 diabetes, stroke, cardiovascular disease, obesity and its complications, and stress-related illness.
Every single one of these has strong behavioral components.
Building a smartphone-first, AI-powered rigorous technology of the human mind gives us all an above-the-table, democratized chance at designing scalable technologies that stop this. It spreads better across national, sex, gender, and SES lines than most other behavior-change oriented solutions. And as we enter an age of an excess of cheap energy, food, and data, we NEED a rigorous way to help us better align modern aspirations with an ancient brainstem.
Note that you're using the word 'addiction'. Many would argue that is hurting in and of itself - regardless of what one would be addicted to.
And that last paragraph is absolutely haunting. We need companies controlling our minds because our brainstem isn't evolved enough??
I hope you get sued into the ground. It's time to start holding people accountable for their effect on our peoples brains.