Encoding human values into technology risks “value lock-in”—cementing both our ideals and our blind spots. This essay explores how revision-friendly protocols and plural audits are vital to preventing ethical stagnation, ensuring that AI and tech systems remain open to challenge, adaptation, and true moral progress.

The good life is protocol-audited flourishing—autonomy, meaning, health, justice, creativity, inclusion—audited and upgraded for all. SE Press sets plural benchmarks and open standards; every claim is public, evidence-driven, and repairable.