tech ethics
@bipolaron Personally I've started looking less at what type of thing the project is, and more at whose needs it is designed for.
Things that are designed for institutional (and especially profit-extractive) needs are much, much more dangerous than things that are designed for communal or personal needs. The latter tends to be very difficult to retrofit into harm-at-scale.
This does mean that a lot of commercial tech gets excluded, because almost all commercial tech that pays the bills is designed for the needs of the company and not for the needs of its users (and there is mechanically very little difference between a for-profit corporation, and a military or contractor thereof).