Researchers should absolutely be required to ruminate on the broader public impacts of their research when requesting vast sums of money from the public. I onc

Researchers should absolutely be required to ruminate on the broader public impacts of their research when requesting vast sums of money from the public. I once heard a researcher on NPR being interviewed about the ethical considerations of Deep Fake research and their answer was (parphrased) "I don't think about these things, I just do the science. The ethical impacts are for others to think about" and I jaw hit the floor. Today we see the unintended consequences of various technologies finding confluence in the public sphere, and the impacts are reverberating across society. Now more than ever researchers have to be cognizant of the broader societal impacts of their work.