When you look at the “bioethics” fiasco, you discover bioethicists writing mainly for an audience of other bioethicists. Bioethicists aren’t writing to doctors or bioengineers, they’re writing to tenure committees and journalists and foundation directors.
Mathematicians mainly write to other mathematicians. This is a problem that effects every field in academia, and it probably always will, simply because people are interested in their fields and not other fields.
Worse, bioethicists are not using their ethical sense in bio-work, the way a doctor whose patient might have incurable cancer must choose how and what to tell the patient.
Most bioethicists are effectively legal counsel for hospitals, where they very much use their ethical sense in bio-work, dictating what is good practice for doctors and patients in particular scenarios. They sometimes even tell doctors how and what to tell the cancer patients. You seem to have a categorically wrong view of what an ethicist does for their day job.
Professional ethicists, to get paid, must transform ethics into something difficult enough to require professional ethicists.
I mean this is only true if it’s also true for any other profession. Professional ethicists, to get paid, must learn a lot of legal compliance and write SOPs for doctors to make ethics something easy enough for the doctors to utilize. I think your view is just fundamentally backwards on a lot of this.
Do you have numbers on how many students were using AI friend apps?