Also, aren't IRBs normally mostly focused on the ethical implications for immediate subjects? Like, obviously if you have human test subjects, the ethics for th

Also, aren't IRBs normally mostly focused on the ethical implications for immediate subjects? Like, obviously if you have human test subjects, the ethics for those participants are considered. But the ethical issue in this research is not about the project maintainers that are directly involved, but about the downstream users who are impacted. It's more difficult to have a process to review/approve impacts of this sort, because they're typically not observable.