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Only through correctly expressing our intentions should Al incidentally telegraph our values. Individual liberty, including freedom of opinion and thought, are absolutely critical not only to human well-being but also to a robust and creative society.*” Allowing values to be enforced by the enfolding curtains of interconnected technology invites gross excesses by powerful actors against those they consider vulnerable, a threat, or just unimportant.*® Even supposing a power that is demonstrably benign, allowing it the mechanisms for tech- nological autocracy creates a niche that may facilitate a less-benign power—whether through a change of hands, corruption of the original power, or corruption of the systems communicating its will. Finally, who or what is a powerful actor is also altered by ICT, where clandestine networks can assemble—or be assembled—out of small numbers of anony- mous individuals acting in a well-coordinated way, even across borders.*’ 7 Julie E. Cohen, “What Privacy Is For,” Harv. L. Rev. 126 (May 2013): 1904-1933. 4% Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger, Re-engineering Humanity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018); 4 Carole Cadwalladr, “‘I Made Steve Bannon’s Psychological Warfare Tool: Meet the Data War Whistleblower,” The Observer (March 18, 2018) https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/ data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump.