So, to you, a man hoarding wealth on an unimaginable scale and is actively engaging in the ruination of the world and humanity is just a annoying thing like a an aggressive driver or yapping dog?

And that harming this techno-Hitler for what he's doing would be the moral equivalent of murdering a normal person for making you angry?

As a developer: yes to the developer and data scientist and data engineer. Scientists and engineers should be responsible for their work.

The BI analyst: maybe, if they're responsible for collecting data that ignores the impact of the service on teens. If they're doing sales-comparisons between Anthropic and OpenAI... eh, I donno.

The janitor: probably not since I don't feel like the deaths are widely publicized and they probably work for a contracting company that handles the building.

In most cases suicide isn't anyone's fault. People like to find someone to blame, and I get that, but people who are even remotely close to doing that, were always going to find a way and a justification.

No AI is going to convince me to kill myself if I didn't already want to. Equally the inverse must also be true.

That's not to say that the companies are completely off the hook, it's utterly ridiculous that these conversations weren't flagged and sent to a human, but I think it's daft to suggest that these people would necessarily still be alive had the AI not existed.

If you manufacture a knife that convinces children to kill themselves, yeah, you're culpable. Everyone else can be charged according to their level of culpability, but any time a company is found liable for killing someone the CEO should be sentenced for their murder. Maybe that would incentivize CEOs to stop getting people killed.