Brain scanning technology that can detect sociopaths
Perhaps valuable, but we should first figure out what we'd do with them after detection - I do not see a handy moral solution, and without one we can quickly come to overreaction or atrocities.
We should also first figure out how we're going to keep sociopaths from taking over the program.
I have just received a survey questionnaire regarding future directions in EU (European Union) research funding, and thought it would be interesting to see how LessWrong would answer the main question:
Imagine that EU funding is available for one ambitious, visionary project extending beyond 2020.