I think “AI ethics” is pretty broad and have different feelings of different parts. I’m generally supportive of work that makes AI better for humanity or non-human animals, even when it’s not focused on the long-term. Sometimes I’m afraid about work in AI ethics that doesn’t seem pass any reasonable cost-benefit analysis, and that it will annoy people in AI and make it harder to get traction with pro-social policies that are better-motivated (I’m also sometimes concerned about this for work in AI safety). I don’t have a strong view about the net effect of work in AI ethics on AI safety, but it generally seems good for the two communities to try to get along (at least as well as either of them gets along with AI more broadly, rather than viewing each other as competitors for some limited amount of socially-responsible oxygen).
I think “AI ethics” is pretty broad and have different feelings of different parts. I’m generally supportive of work that makes AI better for humanity or non-human animals, even when it’s not focused on the long-term. Sometimes I’m afraid about work in AI ethics that doesn’t seem pass any reasonable cost-benefit analysis, and that it will annoy people in AI and make it harder to get traction with pro-social policies that are better-motivated (I’m also sometimes concerned about this for work in AI safety). I don’t have a strong view about the net effect of work in AI ethics on AI safety, but it generally seems good for the two communities to try to get along (at least as well as either of them gets along with AI more broadly, rather than viewing each other as competitors for some limited amount of socially-responsible oxygen).