Most of technology is neither good or evil, and has usages in both civilian and military space. That is how the things are with technological progress. Machine learning may be used to find corelation between gene mutations and cancer, but it may also be used to put missile into unsuspecting enemy.
Roman road system allowed for flow of goods and people within empire on scale never before seen in acient world, but also for their legions to strike empire's enemies.
That's true. But I'm not talking just about military use.
I'm talking about germline gene editing, beyond gene therapy.
It will have consequences that span multiple generations, and are self-replicating. It will completely change the fabric of society. We are going to be changing what we are as life forms, without really understanding life in the first place.
