Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral." This is the first law of technology, outlined by historian Melvin Kranzberg in 1985. It means that technology is only good or bad if we perceive it to be that way based on our own value system. At the same time, because the people who design technology value some things more or less than others, their values influence their designs. Michael Crichton's "Jurassic Park" chaos theorist, Ian Malcolm, notes: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think about if they should." That's the question we have to ask now.

Please discuss the following in your post:

(1)Should we continue to increasingly automate various aspects of society and if so, how can we ensure that advances in AI are beneficial to humanity, not detrimental?

(2)How can we develop technology that makes life better for all of us, not just some and what unintended consequences are we overlooking or ignoring by developing technology that has the power to be manipulated and misused, from undermining elections to exacerbating racial inequality?