AI Ethics Articles Follow a Script That Readers Have Memorized

The satirical accuracy of the Bluesky critique ^[3] points to something structural: the acknowledgment of harm in AI ethics writing has become a ritual gesture rather than a load-bearing argument. Publications that follow the template — ethical concerns in paragraph two, enthusiasm restored by paragraph four — have trained readers to skip the concerns entirely. The AI ethics winter analysis documented this trajectory months before the jokes arrived: the field became one-sided at exactly the moment it was needed most, and practitioners in the communities most affected have stopped waiting…