I think AI ethicists will be pushed out entirely after (before?) the money really starts rolling in. Ethical concerns interfere with profit margins.
They were. Like, right before the big public-use-of-AI wave.
Those left are the ones not seen as troublesome then (or those who have entered the field under them.)
The ethicists who see their job as publishing papers and acting as philosophy professors, sure, but someone has to own the training and eval suite for how AI thinks about trolley problems.