Easy, Douglas Adams already documented the fate of the Golgafrincham: entirely wiped out by a virulent, fatal disease caught from an unsanitized telephone!

You thought you were enabling communication(already dangerous as per the babel fish!) but you were ensuring the means of transmission!

But seriously though, sounds like a fun job where the byproduct of your work improved the experiences and access of people, and thats pretty great.

> Challenge accepted.

Ironically, this is the type of mindset of scientists that do this type of dangerous research. Just to see if it’s possible, with no concern of ethics ever bothering them.

Captioning? If the company used novel techniques you contributed to the surveillance state, you're welcome

The second order effect is obvious. There's some hard of hearing person working on a nefarious device using a phone successfully only because of your dastardly work. How you can sleep at night is beyond my ability to comprehend.

If any life destroys all life, it will be humans destroying all life. So any human promoting act is a contribution to the destruction of all life.

Dolphins are advanced enough, we should let them take it from here.

The next hard of hearing terrorist will use this tech to communicate in otherwise inaccessible channels to gain nuclear capability. Or a nation state actor will abuse it to create such circumstances that they will. Or they will use it as a justification for why they need to protect against the hard of hearing and therefore need funding to develop some weapon.

And in all cases your salary will be taxed to fund weapons and warfare no matter what work you're doing.

Your fingers alone can kill. Everything is a weapon. Don't ignore that fact. Seek to empower the evil doer that is doing the least evil. Do gooders don't run for office.