The same thing can be said about specific technologies. 1) Is it OK to work on facial recognition at all, knowing it will be abused. 2) How about machine lear

The same thing can be said about specific technologies. 1) Is it OK to work on facial recognition at all, knowing it will be abused. 2) How about machine learning in general. It is certainly being abused. Some people are worried about an AI destruction of humanity. Should all AI research be banned. 3) What about open source ML libraries? Having TensorFlow open source, certainly makes it much easier for bad actors to develop ML to do bad stuff. 4) What about open source in general. Having Linux as an open source, free software certainly enabled a lot of people to efficiently run computer systems that can be used for bad things. I am sure, that many of the surveillance systems used by the US, China, and Russia run some variant of Linux. Basically, if you are writing software, especially open source, somewhere along the line, somebody will do something bad with it.