Abstract
The ethics of AI has qualities that make it different than the ethics of other kinds of technologies that bioethicists study. Bioethics tends to deal with the episodic in the lives of individuals; informed consent, medical confidentiality, transplants, pharmaceutical ethics, even death and dying issues touch our lives in general only at discrete moments or periods (though, of course, in those with chronic illness or disability it may be more common). The medical realms of our lives are not our lives entire. For all the ink spilt about the ethics of human genetic engineering, cloning, and so on, only a very few human beings have actually been touched by these biotechnologies.