I am not sure how you came to the conclusion that there is no research on this topic. On Google Scholar you can literally find millions of research papers discussing the risks of AI, its ethics, alignment with human values, and so on, for example:

- Scherer, Matthew U. "Regulating artificial intelligence systems: Risks, challenges, competencies, and strategies." Harv. JL & Tech. 29 (2015): 353. (934 scholar citations)

- Araujo, Theo, et al. "In AI we trust? Perceptions about automated decision-making by artificial intelligence." AI & society 35 (2020): 611-623. (334 scholar citations)

- Osoba, Osonde A., and William Welser IV. "An intelligence in our image: The risks of bias and errors in artificial intelligence." Rand Corporation, 2017. (278 scholar citations)

- Gabriel, Iason. "Artificial intelligence, values, and alignment." Minds and machines 30.3 (2020): 411-437. (216 scholar citations)

- Bryson, Joanna, and Alan Winfield. "Standardizing ethical design for artificial intelligence and autonomous systems." Computer 50.5 (2017): 116-119. (214 scholar citations)

- Yu, Han, et al. "Building ethics into artificial intelligence." arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.02953 (2018). (200 scholar citations)

- Munoko, Ivy, Helen L. Brown-Liburd, and Miklos Vasarhelyi. "The ethical implications of using artificial intelligence in auditing." Journal of Business Ethics 167 (2020): 209-234. (180 scholar citations)

- Christian, Brian. "The alignment problem: Machine learning and human values." WW Norton & Company, 2020. (178 scholar citations)

- Manheim, Karl, and Lyric Kaplan. "Artificial intelligence: Risks to privacy and democracy." Yale JL & Tech. 21 (2019): 106. (178 scholar citations)

- Russell, Stuart, et al. "Ethics of artificial intelligence." Nature 521.7553 (2015): 415-416. (164 scholar citations)

- Risse, Mathias. "Human rights and artificial intelligence: An urgently needed agenda." Hum. Rts. Q. 41 (2019): 1. (135 scholar citations)

- Turchin, Alexey, and David Denkenberger. "Classification of global catastrophic risks connected with artificial intelligence." Ai & Society 35.1 (2020): 147-163. (108 scholar citations)

- Taylor, Jessica, et al. "Alignment for advanced machine learning systems." Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2016): 342-382. (95 scholar citations)

- Santoni de Sio, Filippo, and Giulio Mecacci. "Four responsibility gaps with artificial intelligence: Why they matter and how to address them." Philosophy & Technology 34 (2021): 1057-1084. (84 scholar citations)