> I think #2 is intractable. People have already been arguing about ethics for millenia, and the existence of AI doesn't make it any easier.

Long arguments over many things have been settled by research. Is there any objective reason this may not happen to arguments about ethics?

My POV as to why machines running simulations may help us improve ethics: https://reddit.com/comments/11nenyo/comment/jbn6rys

Life is complex but more and more we can use machines to model aspects of it and perform predictions and from those pick changes that lead to desirable outcomes.