An Ethics Ecosystem for AI

This article diagnoses ethical failures associated with AI as resulting from the lack of a robust ethics ecosystem. Drawing on the domain of health and healthcare, we identify the components of a functioning ecosystem and explain how an ecosystemic approach helps to manage the scale of the ethical challenges in the domain of AI relative to more typical alternatives. The immense scale of AI and its application domains demands moving beyond piecemeal ethics interventions toward a coordinated ethics ecosystem.