Why work on crypto & why working on AI is unethical

Crypto is presented as worth working on because it is one technology that strengthens individuals more than governments, while AI is argued to push governments toward totalitarianism. Technological advances tend to boost state power through the advantages of scale and monopolies on knowledge, while the rule of law and popular accountability advance over decades or centuries. AI is said to make everything legible to the state, since smartphones and loose privacy laws already let some organization track people's locations, activities and online behavior. The excerpt breaks off before fully developing its case for crypto.