This is a terrible article. I have known Marc Raibert since 1981ish when he first joined the Robotics Institute at CMU. That's 39 years of hard work. Worth a dance or two after 39 years. That's him and his people dancing.
Do you hate Marionettes? Are they a danger to your ethics? I guess so.
His lab was next to mine on the same hall. He taped a raceway down the hall so his one leg hopping robot could just try to hop and stay upright the whole time. That took years.
Marc is a genuine scientist who has spent his life trying to understand dynamic control comparable to what even dogs can do.
He has gifted us humans a bit more control over nature by understanding it, not by controlling it.
Read James Clerk Maxwell Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1870ish). This taught us how to control electricity, magnetism, light, electric motors, radio, atoms, the understanding of DNA, and gave Einstein the correct equations that assume lightspeed was a constant. The A-Bomb.
Your reasoning is full of fallacies. Check it against them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
Ethics should always welcome control over nature so we can, in fact, be ethical.
Similarly, I have been studying lies because there is a problem caused by the printed word (or recorded video, etc...the media) and the how the human brain computes. Here is that problem.
This science says clearly that fallacious reasoning is ethically unsound. A worse violation of ethics than Marc's incredibly hard work for so many years.
