I strongly agree with this assessment, and this is why we created a new version of ML4Good, which is non-technical, ML4Good governance, that is no longer targeted for wanna be researcher

I think that advocacy is much more needed than additional technical effort here - see this.

Great post

I've posted a new post, that explains the risks in a much more concrete way I think: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4PpRp589zJGEbDhxX/are-we-dropping-the-ball-on-recommendation-ais