As AI ethicists struggle to find jobs, the technology continues to veer off its guardrails. — Photo by Jared Brashier on Unsplash
In October, Lisa Talia Moretti, an academic who specialises in the ethical dilemmas created by emerging technologies, found that jobs in her field had fallen off a cliff.
Based in the UK, she had been helping conglomerates and medium-sized businesses understand how to adopt AI in a humane and profitable manner. Or, more succinctly, Moretti had been working as an AI ethicist – someone who, as she puts it, helps businesses understand “what this technology is and what it can do.”
