Famously, Jeremy Bentham grounds moral considerability in the capacity to suffer. Peter Singer, following Bentham, broadens the criterion to sentience, i.e., the capacity for pain and pleasure, which still entails the capacity to suffer.
Critical analyses of large socio-technical systems often diagnose depoliticization: political life is said to give way to technocratic governance whose apolitical veneer conceals contestation beneath procedural even-handedness (e.g. Brown 2015).
While discourses on innovation ecosystems have become popular in academia, policy, and practice, they often take place in disciplinary silos and are marked by ambiguity.
In 1993, a famous New Yorker cartoon “On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" joked about online anonymity and disguised identity as emblem of early web culture.
Aligning AI with moral values is widely recognized as important task. Besides the problem of implementation, it remains an open question which moral values current or future AI systems should align with.