My thoughts of late have returned to this amazing scene by @WilliamShatner, made decades ago. As a young person, I found it tremendously inspiring. A code to live by. But it didn’t play out quite like we expected. The “fantastically advanced” life that we actually ended up encountering is right here, on Earth. All around us now. The key issue of our time is becoming this: Not everyone signed up for this mission, or the risk. And what we do about that, ultimately, is where the debate about AI will end up.