where science and ethics intersect with politics
A Super Bowl commercial framed AI-powered neighborhood surveillance as an act of compassion — helping reunite lost dogs with their families. But beneath the emotional storytelling lies a deeper ethical question: when does feel-good technology become normalized surveillance, and who gets a say in its expansion?
The United States finds itself with war-level debt in peacetime, a generational burden no child asked for, and a currency system that rewards the rich and punishes the rest. If we do not restore fiscal ethics, the vulnerable will be the first to be sacrificed—human, non-human and environmental alike. The time for leadership is now.
The Humane Herald 