Homo Techne are highly beneficial, and also in ways that are highly destruc- tive. Same thing with painkillers and countless other technolo- gies. That’s precisely why it’s so important to be acutely aware of the values, assumptions, and aspirations we design into the technologies we build, and why it’s equally important to build appropriate regulatory frameworks to guide their usage. But if it’s detrimental to society to claim that “technology is neutral” in order to evade responsibility for tech’s poten- tial negative outcomes, so is invalidating a technology simply because it has a capacity to produce negative outcomes along with positive ones. My point is not that we should be complacent about negative short-term consequences. We should be extremely committed to avoiding them, and establish protocols and policies to ensure that we put this commitment into practice. But we also can’t be complacent about the negative long-term consequences of not pursuing progress as boldly or systemically as we might through innovative new technologies. Pre-emptive bans against AI algorithms are a great way to lock in the status quo and all the inequities and injustices that inform the present. Holding AI algorithms to 100 percent error-free standards that no current system achieves will only prevent us from making real progress as fast as we might. To successfully address global challenges like climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and diminishing trust in public institutions, I believe Big Tech actually needs to get bigger. Without scale solutions, we have little chance of solving scale problems as quickly as we’ll need to. So that means we should be looking for ways to accelerate technological inno- 207