> The process is ethically neutral, or oblivious if you will. I like 'oblivious' here, as it seems to me a matter of chance about who will achieve a breakthro

> The process is ethically neutral, or oblivious if you will. I like 'oblivious' here, as it seems to me a matter of chance about who will achieve a breakthrough. It does seem to me that once a breakthrough is achieved by someone it will be used to enhance their power over others (counterexamples welcome!) To my mind, this power calls into doubt its ethical neutrality. Yes, it is the people in possession who are making the ethical choices... but they are ethical choices enabled by the technology.