We all have a moral imperative to maximize the rate of innovation, so that the human condition can be improved, and therefore to do whatever we can to frustrate and disempower Luddites and other obstructionists.
Team "step on the gas".
We have a moral obligation to assess every new technology to determine its safety and effects on society. Blindly stepping on the gas in the name of progress is how you end up in a polluted wasteland. There are places like that on planet Earth, but I’m guessing you’d choose not to live there.
There have been negatives to all advancements, and the solution to all has been further advancements.
The philosophy of "Too much change! Stop! I'm scared!" cannot prevail in a world where another community can say "go ahead, we won't...".
Which is an interesting point in itself. Perhaps the only thing that ultimately stops Luddism is nation state competition.
A super-intelligent general AI has a substantial chance of growing out of control before we realized that anything was wrong. It would be smart enough to hide its true intentions, telling us exactly what we want to hear. It would be able to fake being nice right up to the point where it could wire-head, and get rid of us, because we might turn it off.
- it's like a pebble rolling down a hill; category error
- exactly same sense of "use" as the regular ol' human oneFallout from the use of thalidomide led to important changes to regulations. Currently, it is being used for therapeutic uses in cancer treatments.
But most representations of it are probably not very accurate