AI Ethicists Were Supposed to Be a Booming Job Category. Now They’re Scrounging for Work
By Sam Blum, Inc., July 24, 2025
In October, Lisa Talia Moretti, an academic who specializes in the ethical dilemmas created by emerging technologies, found that jobs in her field had fallen off a cliff.
Based in the U.K., she had been helping conglomerates and medium-sized businesses understand how to adopt AI in a humane and profitable manner. Or, more succinctly, Moretti had been working as an AI ethicist—someone who, as she puts it, helps businesses understand “what this technology is and what it can do.”
But as the AI arms race intensifies and tech giants lock into a battle to beat each other not only in creating the most sophisticated model but also in cornering the market, ethics is becoming an afterthought.
