The word 'ethics' is doing enormous load-bearing work this week — and cracking under the weight. On one side, compliance vendors and governance consultants are building procedural frameworks distinguishing ethical AI governance from AI compliance , Senate bills are tasking force structures to address speech-to-text ethics in courts , and researchers are submitting 499-page technical treatises on dharma-aligned AI . On the other, Bluesky communities are parsing whether pirating from corporations is now the more defensible moral act and sharing Onion satire about a founder who "saw so much…