Here's an anecdote echoing many of the other comments: I attended an event about AI ethics a couple of years ago, many of the panelists were getting very excit

Here's an anecdote echoing many of the other comments: I attended an event about AI ethics a couple of years ago, many of the panelists were getting very excited about the upcoming AI eithics guidlines from the IEEE and how it would set a gold standard for state level AI development. They were completely unaware that the IEEE already has a general code of ethics[0], which many governments implicitly require engineers in certain roles to ignore. [0] https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html