Engineer A Technology Substitution Violation
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/121#Engineer_A_Technology_Substitution_Violation
Definition
Engineer A treated a CD-ROM design tool as a substitute for the domain knowledge and professional judgment required to practice facilities design and construction engineering, rather than as an aid subject to substantive professional evaluation.
Properties
Instance of
TechnologySubstitutionProhibitionPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#TechnologySubstitutionProhibitionPrinciple
Applied to
CD-ROM design tool used to offer facilities design services
Balancing with
Competence Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer A treated a CD-ROM design tool as a substitute for the domain knowledge and professional judgment required to practice facilities design and construction engineering, rather than as an aid subject to substantive professional evaluation.
Confidence
0.87
Interpretation
The Technology Substitution Prohibition Principle applies not only to AI tools but to any technological tool that an engineer uses as a replacement for, rather than an aid to, independent professional judgment. A design tool cannot supply the foundational competence that the engineer lacks.
Tension resolution
The two principles are complementary here. Both are violated by the same conduct: using a software tool to offer services in a domain where the engineer lacks the competence to evaluate the tool's outputs.
Match Confidence
0.95
Match Reasoning
Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Technology Substitution Prohibition Principle'
Matched Ontology Label
Technology Substitution Prohibition Principle
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
Engineer A orders the CD-ROM and begins to offer facilities design and construction services.
specifying, designing and costing out any construction project is as easy as pointing and clicking your mouse - no matter your design experience.
Source text
specifying, designing and costing out any construction project is as easy as pointing and clicking your mouse - no matter your design experience. For instance, never designed a highway before? No problem. Just point to the 'Highways' window and click.
TTL
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case121:Engineer_A_Technology_Substitution_Violation a proeth:TechnologySubstitutionProhibitionPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Technology Substitution Violation" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case121:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "CD-ROM design tool used to offer facilities design services" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Competence Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A treated a CD-ROM design tool as a substitute for the domain knowledge and professional judgment required to practice facilities design and construction engineering, rather than as an aid subject to substantive professional evaluation." ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:interpretation "The Technology Substitution Prohibition Principle applies not only to AI tools but to any technological tool that an engineer uses as a replacement for, rather than an aid to, independent professional judgment. A design tool cannot supply the foundational competence that the engineer lacks." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A" ;
proeth:principleClass "Technology Substitution Prohibition Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The two principles are complementary here. Both are violated by the same conduct: using a software tool to offer services in a domain where the engineer lacks the competence to evaluate the tool's outputs." ;
proeth:textReferences "Engineer A orders the CD-ROM and begins to offer facilities design and construction services.",
"specifying, designing and costing out any construction project is as easy as pointing and clicking your mouse - no matter your design experience." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 121 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T18:45:01.804237+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 121 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.95 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Technology Substitution Prohibition Principle'" ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass proeth:TechnologySubstitutionProhibitionPrinciple ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Technology Substitution Prohibition Principle" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "specifying, designing and costing out any construction project is as easy as pointing and clicking your mouse - no matter your design experience. For instance, never designed a highway before? No problem. Just point to the 'Highways' window and click." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A treated a CD-ROM design tool as a substitute for the domain knowledge and professional judgment required to practice facilities design and construction engineering, rather than as an aid subject to substantive professional evaluation." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A treated a CD-ROM design tool as a substitute for the domain knowledge and professional judgment required to practice facilities design and construction engineering, rather than as an aid subject to substantive professional evaluation." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T18:45:01.804237+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 121 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 121 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
121
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-04T18:45:01.804237+00:00
First case
121
Generated
2026-06-04T18:45:01.804237+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 121 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 121 Extraction