Butler said: “If we rely on ordinary language to tell us what the good life is, we will become confused, since the phrase has become a vector for competing schemes of value.” This is why the vast majority of people in our book define and critique the idea of “good” in order to make its value-ladenness visible.

As historian of artificial intelligence (AI) Jonnie Penn emphasizes, good technology is often not really about technology at all but about other good things, like living well together, economic justice, and the redistribution of power