AI Ethics isn't a non-technical field. See the accepted papers at the conference in question: https://facctconference.org/2021/acceptedpapers.html https://facc

AI Ethics isn't a non-technical field. See the accepted papers at the conference in question: https://facctconference.org/2021/acceptedpapers.html https://facctconference.org/2021/acceptedpapers.html it's a mix of "soft" humanities, applied ML, methodology, algorithms/theory, and HCI. it's not any harder to evaluate an AI ethics researcher than it is any other kind of researcher.