[jaddood]

A more reasonable thing to do is to form a council of computer scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, politicians, and people otherwise capable of having a useful opinion in the matter.

That council would then have the task of reviewing new technologies and their potential impacts. The council may then have different subgroups each discussing a certain technology, or possibly each with a certain specific task such as: reviewing research papers, watching the developments inside companies, writing legal propositions, etc...

This council could then be under a government agency, or better yet, an NGO that can get funding by the government, from donations, universities, etc...

What would you think about that?

[onceKnowable]

Absolutely not!

A council, no matter how large, is, relative to the general public as a whole, made up of a small number of individuals.

Such a council would raise so many ethical concerns, such as: Who are these individuals? Why are they on the council? What are their biases? What does their livelihoods ultimately depend on? What conflicts of interest do they have? Among hundreds of other questions.

Only an informed debate among the general public can lead to laws that robustly protect the public at large because vested interests get drowned out by informed dissent from other, equally-qualified, voices who are not affected by such vested interests.