> These are real harms happening right now due to alignment failures. They're just not harms to the future of the entire species

Okay, sure. You can also cut your hand off with a chainsaw. Everything you describe seems amply solvable with existing tort and liability law.

Customers are willingly entering into business with OpenAI. I don't see an argument for preventing OpenAI from "building these systems" just because their products are buggy.