The future of AI ethics

A retrospective study shows that the future of AI technologies has never been aligned to our previous expectations. As a consequence, AI ethics, i.e. the branch of philosophy that aims to provide rules of behavior in a world shaped by AI, cannot be limited to risk avoidance, because the opportunities and dangers of the technologies cannot be fully anticipated. We will show that future AI ethics will be neither a legal regulation, nor a set of norms, but a working methodology.