To conflate AI with smoking is just not helpful. At all.
Or are you saying that there are acute harms from AI that are being ignored?
Acute, chronic - why would it matter?
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".
Acute would imply that we should flat out stop. Chronic would imply looking for plans to work on it. Acute and chronic would imply that we should both stop and take action to address damages.
What harms from AI are people ignoring?