AI Versus AI: Is Ethics An Arms Race?

Increasingly, AI programs reflect a closed loop where privacy goes up against truthfulness. Supposing you were concerned about a new technology, as far as the risks it might pose to individuals and to society. One thing you could do would be to form a committee composed of experts, practitioners of the technology, ethicists, philosophers and like-minded individuals. You might then propose policy and regulation and best practices to minimize harm. Another approach would be to just write computer programs, presuming that your enlightened engineering effort would eliminate harm by making technology do the right thing from the get-go.