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> The fact that ethics is "trending" is because more researchers would like tackle ethical challenges explicitly, instead of falling back on the default of a given community

The trouble isn't that ethics is trendings, it is that it is happening in 2021.

Rant: The world has gotten poisoned by social media, and that has enabled screwball US academic philosophy to leaked out. In the current climate, philosophers are either cracked or cancelled. Most people who wax lyrical on ethics in AI (and basically anybody who actually calls themselves "an ethicists") are insufferable.

To think about ethics in technology you need to step outside the narrow confines of our current cultural assumptions of right and wrong, because they're are prone to fashion and hysteria. Right now, if you try to do that you run the risk of ending your career.