When a researcher discovers that smoking is damaging to the lungs, do they need to provide a solution that allows people to smoke without damaging their lungs? Would their inability to provide a solution take anything away from the research?
Or are you saying that there are acute harms from AI that are being ignored?
Why is it unhelpful to conflate AI with smoking?
And yes, lots of people are saying "there are harms from AI that are being ignored".
What harms from AI are people ignoring?