What technologies and questions about technology are just too hot to handle?
According to researchers presenting at “Forbidden Research,” a conference held last week at the MIT Media Lab, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the list includes child sex robots, genetic gene drives, and a simple but controversial way to save Earth from rising temperatures.
We added a couple of our own to create the following list of forbidden technologies. Each question is morally or legally fraught and sets up a clash of ethics between individual technologists in search of solutions and institutions that see possible harm.
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