The AI Ethicist's Dirty Hands Problem: Attempting to balance sometimes-conflicting interests.

This article discusses ethics in the context of artificial intelligence and how an AI ethicist navigates several dilemmas in this area. The ethicist’s choice examined in this article is to either work within the system to improve ethics in AI or work from the outside. To work inside of the system would involve one or more of the major companies in the information technology industry known commonly as Big Tech or the Big Five, which includes Google. The article suggests a role for government in balancing the power of Big Tech to allow for ethical artificial intelligence.