Client-Interest vs. Third-Party Safety Algorithmic Pre-Commitment State
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Client-Interestvs.Third-PartySafetyAlgorithmicPre-CommitmentState
Definition
State in which a professional engineer must recommend a design specification — specifically an algorithmic decision rule — that permanently and irrevocably pre-commits an autonomous system to prioritizing either the safety of the client's customers (vehicle passengers) or the safety of third parties (pedestrians, cyclists, bystanders) in unavoidable harm scenarios, where the choice cannot be individualized at the moment of the event and where the client's commercial interest in passenger safety marketing may conflict with the engineer's obligation to minimize aggregate public harm.
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Definition
State in which a professional engineer must recommend a design specification — specifically an algorithmic decision rule — that permanently and irrevocably pre-commits an autonomous system to prioritizing either the safety of the client's customers (vehicle passengers) or the safety of third parties (pedestrians, cyclists, bystanders) in unavoidable harm scenarios, where the choice cannot be individualized at the moment of the event and where the client's commercial interest in passenger safety marketing may conflict with the engineer's obligation to minimize aggregate public harm.
Source Evidence
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does the vehicle's system choose the outcome that will likely result in the greatest potential for safety for the vehicle's passengers or does the vehicle's software system instead choose an option in which the least amount of potential harm is done to any of those involved in an accident
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Content Hash
cc3db65163b28da2...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
165
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-27T23:23:14.080776+00:00
First Discovered In Case
165
Generated
2026-02-27T23:23:14.080776+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 165 Extraction