I have no background in ethics research so this is a layman's view but what strikes me as bizarre is that ethics researchers are trying to decide what is ethica

I have no background in ethics research so this is a layman's view but what strikes me as bizarre is that ethics researchers are trying to decide what is ethical. 2 reasonable people can look at the same set of ethical issues, weigh the potential pros and cons and come to different decisions about what course of action is the ethical one. It does not seem to be a field where an ultimate truth exists. I would think an ethics researcher should be examining AI technology to determine the ethical impacts a technology, implementation or use may generate both positive and negative, so that a decision maker can properly weigh them. Once you try to determine what you consider the ethical decision to be and insist that is the only acceptable decision for another to make, you are no longer a researcher but an advocate. Having a belief of what is ethical and advocating for it is fine but it shouldn't be framed as research.