AI ethics and its pitfalls: not living up to its own standards?

Abstract AI ethics is deemed to be an essential ingredient in the quest for trustworthy AI. Hence, demands implementing and ethicists into organizations, especially corporations, are ubiquitous. However, assumption that have particular epistemological advantages compared non-ethicists as well idea automatically decreases likelihood of unethical outcomes both flawed. Therefore, this comment lists risks either originate from themselves or consequences their embedding organizations has. The compilation comprises psychological considerations concerning cognitive biases biased reactions work, subject-specific knowledge constraints often succumb to, negative side effects audits applications, many more. Ultimately, aim not diminish deny importance discipline ethics, but rather increase its capacities self-reflection and, ultimately, effectiveness.