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Others get more personal, as when Anushka (Meaghan Rath), the ineffectual chief ethicist at a Google-like giant, and her oddball inventor husband, Martin (Simon Helberg), butt heads over her skepticism of his work.
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
Cody Turner, an ethicist at Bentley University, also says that sycophantic AI can cause harm by damaging our ability to gather knowledge.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2026
Fourteen Catholic moral theologians, ethicists and philosophers have filed briefs in federal court supporting Anthropic in its fight.
—Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2026
That team would include technical experts who understand the system, diplomats who understand the global consequences of what is said, and ethicists and lawyers who can flag red lines that must not be crossed.
—Jon Truby, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
Cody Turner, an ethicist at Bentley University, also says that sycophantic AI can cause harm by damaging our ability to gather knowledge.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2026
Fourteen Catholic moral theologians, ethicists and philosophers have filed briefs in federal court supporting Anthropic in its fight.
—Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2026
That team would include technical experts who understand the system, diplomats who understand the global consequences of what is said, and ethicists and lawyers who can flag red lines that must not be crossed.
—Jon Truby, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
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“Ethicist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethicist. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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ethicist
noun
eth·i·cist
ˈeth-ə-səst 
: one who specializes in or is very concerned about ethics
now ethicists must confront the unsettling question of whether to set limits on scientific inquiry—Ricardo Sookdeo
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