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A peer-reviewed Synthese article argues that institutional publication and funding incentives can push AI ethicists toward negative portrayals to sustain careers; this supports an incentive mechanism related to public relevance but does not establish that specific AI researchers adopt doomer views for that reason. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: The negativity crisis of AI ethics · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:d1a612c1cf7688631c4bfe7d8721338d91b95667b074c78c78b088916accc7a6

AI ethicists must point out ethical issues with AI, or else they risk obsolescence. ... You cannot apply for funding ... unless you frame AI as creating ethical problems that need to be researched. ... AI ethicists almost have to be concerned about AI in order to have a career.