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2013 List
Adaptation to climate change
Data collection and privacy
Autonomous systems
Personalized medicine
Human enhancements
3-D Printing
Human-animal hybrids
Low-quality and counterfeit pharmaceuticals
Driverless zipcars
Ensuring access to wireless and spectrum
Hacking into medical devices
2014 List
Predictive policing
Neuroenhancement
Automated law enforcement
Geoengineering
Data chip implants
Human-machine interfaces
Virtual currency
Property rights in space
Sexbots
Do-it-yourself cyborgs
2015 List
Artificial life forms
Astronaut bioethics (of colonizing Mars)
Brain-to-brain interfaces
Enhanced pathogens
Non-lethal weapons
Real-time satellite surveillance
Resilient social-ecological systems
Robot swarms
State-sponsored hacktivism and ‘soft war’
Wearable technology
2016 List
Artificial wombs
Bone conduction for marketing
CRISPR-Cas9
Digital labor rights
Disappearing drones
Exoskeletons for the elderly
Head transplants
Hello Barbie
Lethal cyber weapons
Rapid whole genome sequencing
2017 List
Automated Politics
Brain Hacking
Edublocks
Medical Ghost Management
NeuV’s “Emotion Engine”
Predicting Criminality
Reanimating Cryonics
Swarm Tech
The Robot Cloud
The Self-Healing Body
2018 List
Emotion-Sensing Facial Recognition
Google Clips
Helix
Ransomware
Sentencing software
Social Credit Systems
The Citizen App
The Rise of the Friendbot
The Robot Priest
The Textalyzer
2019 List
5G
Autonomous translation
Behavioral biometrics
DIY Neurohacking
Insect allies
Pet Cloning
Seeding Trials
Sidewalk Labs
The datafication of children
The Suicide Machine
2020 list
AI and gamification in hiring
Deepfakes
Grinch bots
Predatory journals
Project Nightingale
Student tracking software
The corruption of tech ethics
The HARPA Safehome proposal
The pseudoscience of skincare
Class Dojo and classroom surveillance
2021 List
State-sponsored hacktivism and ‘soft war’
