If you work in AI you should have an idea of what you would like the future to look like. Otherwise you are just haphazardly creating power multipliers for surveillance capabilities and destroying the economic viability of human labor.
@nsaphra Google adopted the motto "don't be evil" a long time ago, but it's not helping noticeably. 😉
Seriously though, tech workers can have the best intentions in the world, but it matters little if their work is bought up by Facebook and used to do evil.
AI is like cars. Our society has an elaborate system of rules for how we manufacture, operate, and maintain cars and their supporting infrastructure. We need something similar for AI, but it will take time to work out.