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> Did we have some ethics discussion when the lightbulb was invented? Or when the car was invented?

Yes, yes we did. We debated photos, voice recording, radio waves, TV shows. Every innovation spawns years of Ethics discussion.

Weird to see someone on this site, presumably in tech, who hasn't been taught or learned that yet.

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Yes, you're right, there were many studies made by the companies building those and the companies against those.

And now that you mention it, I remember a class I had called "Ethics & computer science".

I guess I should have thought more about expressing my idea that whatever ethics work we might setup "now", we won't be able to predict the advantage & disadvantage of any technology in the future.

Whatever restriction we'll set in place would be based on our actual cultural situation.

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