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Many ethicists focus on preventing worst-case AI scenarios, such as rogue models and mass unemployment, while ignoring deeper questions about how the technology might degrade our humanity or undermine our sense of purpose.
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Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026
The request, which could dramatically expand the personally identifiable medical information OPM can access, alarmed health ethicists, insurance company executives, and privacy advocates.
—Amanda Seitz, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
Just this week, an AI ethicist and senior research associate at the University of Cambridge said in a post on X that he was hired as a philosopher for Google DeepMind, Alphabet’s AI lab.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
Others get more personal, as when Anushka (Meaghan Rath), the ineffectual chief ethicist at a Google-like giant, and her oddball inventor husband, Martin (Simon Helberg), butt heads over her skepticism of his work.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
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Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026
The request, which could dramatically expand the personally identifiable medical information OPM can access, alarmed health ethicists, insurance company executives, and privacy advocates.
—Amanda Seitz, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
Just this week, an AI ethicist and senior research associate at the University of Cambridge said in a post on X that he was hired as a philosopher for Google DeepMind, Alphabet’s AI lab.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
Others get more personal, as when Anushka (Meaghan Rath), the ineffectual chief ethicist at a Google-like giant, and her oddball inventor husband, Martin (Simon Helberg), butt heads over her skepticism of his work.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
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“Ethicist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethicist. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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ethicist
noun
eth·i·cist
ˈeth-ə-səst 
: one who specializes in or is very concerned about ethics
now ethicists must confront the unsettling question of whether to set limits on scientific inquiry—Ricardo Sookdeo
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