Wilhelmus de Wilde Hello, ChartreuseMockingbird.
This is the sort of quality article I would expect for a contest like this. Lots of material and ideas, many convincing observations and proposals. Good that you address AI, which will transform society and science in many was in coming decades. I like your concern for social inequities and other large-scale ethical issues. I like to see citations, but they aren't required here. Also would you (and anyone reading this) please take a look at my essay too, which attempts to disprove AI reductionism about minds. I use both a philosophical argument about existential knowledge (a sort of update of Descartes famous experiment) plus inferences from quantum mechanics. Thanks, and rem. again: this is the last day to rate and discuss!