It is divorced from reality. There's only one north star in a capitalist mode of production, and it's the profit mechanism. Corporate ethics is a pipe dream. Th

It is divorced from reality. There's only one north star in a capitalist mode of production, and it's the profit mechanism. Corporate ethics is a pipe dream. The only reason to have such a team is because their existence would shape perception enough to create profit either through motivating the workers ("we can't be doing harm, we have an ethics team backing us") or through PR ("Microsoft announces ethics specialists on new AI offering to answer any concerns over moral issues blah blah").