Morality is not there to be useful, right or wrong in moral sense are normative categories not utilitarian ones.
But what you possibly may mean is really AI ethics self-regulation by large tech corporation does not work. (If that was your intended statement, I'd agree.)
even at the time that was the verdict
ai ethics was/is useless. it felt a lot like the movie industry of the 1930s saying they will police themselves just to keep any bigger regulator away
To say "AI ethics is useless" is itself useless.
Morality is not there to be useful, right or wrong in moral sense are normative categories not utilitarian ones.
But what you possibly may mean is really AI ethics self-regulation by large tech corporation does not work. (If that was your intended statement, I'd agree.)
... And then they didn't!
for good reasons.
It turns out when you usher the dissenters out of the room, you hear a lot less dissent.
It’s not like they were summarily executed. They are much freer now outside of corporate control to speak their minds as they please.
The only real question is if anyone deems them worth listening to.
I mean, I follow them.
Their problem domain is pretty niche and they're pretty technical on it so I don't doubt their traction is mostly academics.