The rash of ethical takes on AI and the thought leadership industry flourishing around it, is, if anything, helping to accelerate the development of AI. As a cobra effect, AI ethics are not making AI ethical, and may even be encouraging the AI industry to be more unethical.
Historically, strong encryption has remained out of reach for the average user. Is that changing now that tools like the Brave browser are making encryption accessible, while also enabling web access to be safer and faster?
What if democracy was translated from an idealized metaphor into a technical tool that made voting and decision making easier? That is the hope of democracy.earth, an organization, philosophy, and suite of (blockchain based) software.