"Papers in AI ethics implicitly see AI as an inevitability, as a natural next step or progression of technology. AI is “better” than pre-AI technologies, hence the very task ethics has to accomplish is to ensure “ethical” or “trustworthy AI”. However, it is wrong to assume that the goal is ethical AI. Rather, the primary aim from which detailed norms can be derived should be a peaceful, sustainable, and just society. Hence, AI ethics must dare to ask the question where in an ethical society one should use AI and its inherent principle of predictive modeling and classification at all. It is a major weakness of AI ethics to simply condone AI systems being applied in more and more areas of society, merely because it fits existing (dys-)functional logics of companies, schools, police stations, and the like."
Hagendorff, T. Blind spots in AI ethics. AI Ethics 2, 851–867 (2022).