[c1ll1an]

This is valid but potentially a slightly different issue, insofar as I don't believe that the work we're doing at Ethyca affects the moral compass of a company. There are certainly many businesses we actively choose not to work with and I won't start a war here but I think that's a vital point - trust and integrity are part of building anything that's safe.

Otherwise how do we know a bridge is structurally sound enough to walk across? We have to trust in the checks/balances, systems and people that work on that infrastructure. The same should apply to any software that affects large numbers of people.

If a company is setting out to do ill, that's a societal failing we should all care about and hope to prevent, but it won't be solved just with technical measures.