  What do Cyberpunk and AI Ethics have to do with each other? Cyberpunk is a
sub-genre of science fiction that explores the post-human relationships between
human experience and technology. One similarity between AI Ethics and Cyberpunk
literature is that both seek to explore future social and ethical problems that
our technological advances may bring upon society. In recent years, an
increasing number of ethical matters involving AI have been pointed and
debated, and several ethical principles and guides have been suggested as
governance policies for the tech industry. However, would this be the role of
AI Ethics? To serve as a soft and ambiguous version of the law? We would like
to advocate in this article for a more Cyberpunk way of doing AI Ethics, with a
more democratic way of governance. In this study, we will seek to expose some
of the deficits of the underlying power structures of the AI industry, and
suggest that AI governance be subject to public opinion, so that good AI can
become good AI for all.
