  The 4th Industrial Revolution is the culmination of the digital age.
Nowadays, technologies such as robotics, nanotechnology, genetics, and
artificial intelligence promise to transform our world and the way we live.
Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Safety is an emerging research field that
has been gaining popularity in recent years. Several private, public and
non-governmental organizations have published guidelines proposing ethical
principles for regulating the use and development of autonomous intelligent
systems. Meta-analyses of the AI Ethics research field point to convergence on
certain principles that supposedly govern the AI industry. However, little is
known about the effectiveness of this form of Ethics. In this paper, we would
like to conduct a critical analysis of the current state of AI Ethics and
suggest that this form of governance based on principled ethical guidelines is
not sufficient to norm the AI industry and its developers. We believe that
drastic changes are necessary, both in the training processes of professionals
in the fields related to the development of software and intelligent systems
and in the increased regulation of these professionals and their industry. To
this end, we suggest that law should benefit from recent contributions from
bioethics, to make the contributions of AI ethics to governance explicit in
legal terms.
