After storm damage in the spring and a skeleton crew in the summer, the institute was fully reopened in October with a new director and a new mission: It will be a home for technologists to reckon with what they have built.

Isn't it safe to say that most people who invent/develop things are not capable of forseeing all possible uses of their technology?

“They wonder if they’re doing the right thing for humanity,” Mr. Tauber said. “These are questions we can only answer behind closed doors.”

I genuinely laughed at that comment. We are only usually able to see the consequences of our actions/past as Steve Jobs would say " when we connect the dots going backwards"