I have been asked to write about Technology, Ethics, and Responsibility

As emerging tech continues to reshape society, are there ethical  questions you feel Science Fiction is uniquely positioned to explore?

Human beings enjoy entertainment and there are many ways to find that entertainment. Science Fiction is one of the best ways to be entertained, whether through books, television, or movies. Science Fiction often deals with the hard questions of new technology and whether we will benefit from it or be or be destroyed by it.

  In the 1950s and 60s, there were many television shows, books, and movies about the dangers of various technologies. For instance, there was the Movie "Them" about giant ants evolving in the New Mexico desert where the atomic bombs were tested. And "It Came from Beneath the Sea" about a giant octopus forced from the deep ocean by atomic testing. And the film "The Incredible Shrinking Man" about a six-foot tall guy who's boat encounters a green fog that turns out to be radioactive. And soon after that, he starts to shrink. One of the scariest scenes is where he's shrunken down to just a few inches and his household cat hunts him for food. Later, he has to fight off a small spider bigger than him in the basement. And then there is "The Fly", where a scientist creates a teleporter and when he is personally trying it out, he fails to notice a tiny fly inside the chamber with him. His head, a shoulder, and one arm are transformed into a giant fly, while those same body parts and part of his brain appear on the tiny fly's body  This version is much better than Jeff Goldbloom's version in the 1980's.

  In the 19 teen sixties we get Star Trek, and hope for a better future. We also get Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits which bring us more threats of dangerous tech.

   In 1983, almost everybody thought the computer could do it all and Newspapers, News Shows, magazine, and just about everyone else thought that computers could do it all, and tens of thousands of copy editors world wide were laid off. Then the world found out that computers couldn't do anything by themselves, that the machines needed people.

  Now, we are in the age of high tech and AI.

  Something to consider: AIs still have a long way to go. The same applies for robots. Neither are self-aware. They don't have minds of their own. Tech has a long ways to go before we have R Two - D2  and C3PO.