we disagree about the nature of the threat. your view is much the same as anthropic actually.
anthropic say that the threat is the ai itself. i say that the threat is ai companies and their employees.
when ai causes harms anthropic say that the ai was the cause of the harm. when discussing safety, anthropic say that we must regulate ai to ensure the safety of other people. at no point does human responsibility or accountability enter the picture.
i say that the threat is the ai companies. when ai causes harms i say that the ai companies were the cause of the harm. when discussing safety, i say we must regulate ai companies to ensure the safety of other people. i say that responsibility enters the picture: ai companies and their employees are responsible and accountable.
a legal person is responsible for their own actions regardless of what others say about it or fail to do themselves. a legal person is responsible for their own actions regardless of whether those actions constitute employment. they are responsible for the outcome, regardless of what they expected to happen. the law is not utilitarian.
if the ai companies can't develop ai safely, they must cease their operations. if employees can't work safely, they must stop working.
the opinions of others, or the standards they practice, or the actions they fail to take to protect others, are legally and culturally irrelevant.
the individual is responsible and accountable for their own actions.