I feel that the responsibilities of a scientist are to make sure that they are able to control their work and know that there will not be an outbreak. It is to secure the existence of humanity. The scientific progress of having something go wrong is always a possibility. The reason for it is to check if there is opportunity of something new whether its life, or disease. It is the likelihood of knowing if something can be done to protect man kind or go against it. Science has unintended consequences. Take Futurama exhibit in the World’s Fair for instance. It was to benefit the American people after the war. It was supposed to improve lives and technology by having automobiles, superhighways, and a suburbia. The perfect world, a utopia but in fact it that would lead to global warming. Or take artificial intelligence for instance. Scientist built something that can completely one day take over humanity. One example of that is going online, making a profile and then entering a captcha a...
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