We've had an extremely light discussion around AI with artists complaining realising they too can be automated, we had the concept of a literal baby making facility, I'm assuming genetic rewriting for immortality is next week...
But getting away from the leftist takes on these subjects and the meming on facing a skynet/matrix future, what are the real opinions you have on this kind of tech?
Personally, with AI it's a Pandora's box, if we CAN create sentient artificial life, best hope is not to do it but if a dumbass does we imbrace and integrate that being, as starting conflict will probably be the reason we die.
As for artificial wombs, having the tech is needed but not in this commercial sense that video presentation gave, more as a 'last resort, literally required to save humanity' sense.
These are the two ones mentioned this week alone but any other tech you put on the 'forbidden' side or your takes on the ones disscussed.
I think people wish to ban technologies because they are uncomfortable having the moral responsibility that comes from possessing and using those technologies. So they attempt to square that circle not by instilling that sense of moral responsibility in the people but by attempting to ban it.
This is an inherently dysgenic philosophy in that over time it degrades society's sense of morality with regard to technology. It is also the same philosophy that underpinned the 20th century administrative state's relationship toward technology: "we are uncomfortable exercising moral judgement toward individuals who use technology to harm others, so instead we will regulate everyone's use of that technology to minimize its potential harm; and by doing so eliminate the need to exercise that moral judgment."