Billionaires have funded surveillance of everyone's movements across a large part of Baltimore.

The private funds enabled thugs to do this without even telling the city government, let alone asking.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, adopted an ordinance so that city departments must get coulcil permission for surveillance devices.

Any unarmed American is in danger of being shot dead by thugs (though mostly they do this to blacks), and there is no reliable way to avoid it.

Superintelligent AI is a potential danger.

Here's my fictional idea for one way it might be made safe.

Germany has extended its wind farms faster than its power grid; it can't transport all the power to people who need it.

There are ways to use the electricity, which while not optimally efficient are better than shutting off the wind turbines. Germany could build cables to sell this electricity to other nearby countries including the Netherlands and England, or use it to extract CO2 from the air, or extract CO2 from the air to convert into chemical fuels.

Democracy works very badly in the US, partly because most voters are very bad at thinking.

Look at the Trump supporters that have taken a stand that is almost opposed to the idea of rational thought.