Humanoid robots (androids?) are nightmare fuel. We used to watch movies and read books of these constructs running amuck. Why do it for real? And why would anyone get exciting in a positive way about seeing one?

At best, a humanoid robot means an isolationist culture does not have to look to immigration to solve their labor problems. At worst, economic catastrophe, accidents, robot wars, etc.

Is death the only harm we should consider?

Children don't usually die of smoking. They can develop asthma from second hand smoke.
Or a life long addiction as an adult that does indeed put them at risk of lung disease, cancer, and more. (grandfather had oral cancer, then throat cancer, then finally lung cancer which metastasized to his brain)

I believe that device addiction at an early age puts children at higher risk of disability. That we are going to find ourselves with a generation that has a significant portion of them unable to work. We are already see children developing anxiety, depression, and eating disorders in middle and late childhood. Yet we're increasing screen time, and advertisers are ramping up the targeting of children online.

About all I have been able to do is write my representatives with my concerns. But be prepared for the future. We have let down a generation.

The opinion of the USAF and CIA were that G. W. Bush's and Obama's drone strikes and kinetic weapons were lawful.

Google shouldn't be agreeing with an organization that has a staggering disrespect for ethics, human life, and even the law as written.

Dark patterns and marketing are right up there with child labor in coal mines. At least in terms of the long term disability and social harm it is leading us to

Doesn't everyone spend 8 hours in a restaurant with their kids every day, or am I thinking of a special hell?

If you don't feel like writing things, then I'm not going to read them myself. We will plug AI into AI as a big circular human centipede oroboros.

I guess us humans will have to do things that don't involve mass media consumption.

R.I.P. late stage capitalism

Helping half the teen population in such a short time is excellent progress

Social media is worse than smoking and possibly drinking. At least we can treat the physical addiction of smoking, and to some degree the psychological addition.

Our society and our institutions don't have great tools for mass deprogramming people who have been psychologically manipulated by media and tech for their formative years.

Societal collapse is a well-documented phenomenon in human history, and there is likely nothing special about our world culture that makes us any more immune from collapse than a bronze age civilization. We're essentially the same genetically and behaviorally, in many ways we continue to share the faults and foibles of past generations because we are ultimately all from the same human stock.

China will leave us alone if we let them rule the South China Sea and other regions close to them. But as a fellow imperialist country we are going to send forces thousands of miles away from our own borders just to start a war with China.

Capitalism rewards the strategy of consuming your potential competition. Actual competition is only a last resort in this economic system.

s/I don't argue that those are serious examples of criminal liability./I agree those are serious examples of criminal liability./

sorry - I reworded it a double negative in my original edit, and didn't remove both negatives (facepalm)

The thread that runs through your examples is knowingly allowing or directly facilitating known illegal activity.
I don't argue that those are serious examples of criminal liability.
Luckily for my own argument, I did not argue that all businesses are immune from criminal liability because they are just doing business. Often illegal business in your cited cases.

The People's Republic of California. They still make them, and they leave a pile of them at the end of my private road every year.

It would be a problematic precedent if there were criminal liability. And such a ruling can potentially hamstring phone books, encyclopedias, taxi services, and gun manufacturers. Any ancillary service or device used for a crime is a target with an imaginative prosecutor.

Civil liability? I sure hope so. The AI industry does not regulate itself and the government has so far refused to regulate what they believe is a golden goose.

no, which is why I don't think I should be allowed to run on foot in an electric car race.