I'm a hard "NO!" on this one. Chances are it'll turn out the funding came from Blackrock or the CIA and everyone's data will be fed through to the people running the surveillance society.
How long before retinal scans get tied to criminal records and social credit scores, and every train and bus is equipped with retinal scanners ? They'll take your digital money at the same time as telling you you're not authorised to travel because you posted a now-unacceptable meme twenty years ago.
This... Few see it from such an angle.
In a way I still have some hope for humanity, because the Nobel prize was instituted by Alfred Nobel as an act of contrition after he realised how awful his invention was, even if it's become politicised in recent years. Oppenheimer seems to have regretted what he made.
It's definitely an issue with scientists and inventors; they're to quick to ask "can we ?" and not quick enough to ask "should we ?"
As for drones, my concern is when they mix drone swarms with AI. There was a recent USAF simulation (which they seem to have tried to downplay) where the AI worked out that it's human operator was hindering it's mission so "killed" him - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/us-military-drone-ai-killed-operator-simulated-test
Too bad the masses are so asleep.