Engineer A AV Faithful Agent Informed Decision Enablement Obligation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/165#Engineer_A_AV_Faithful_Agent_Informed_Decision_Enablement_Obligation
Properties
Instance of
Case context
Engineer A serves as a consultant to the automobile manufacturer and is assigned to the engineering risk assessment team, creating a faithful agent relationship in which the engineer owes the manufacturer complete and honest advisory services within the bounds of professional ethics.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A, as a consultant to the automobile manufacturer, was obligated to act as a faithful agent by providing the manufacturer with a diligent, competent, and complete risk assessment — including all material findings about both harm-distribution frameworks — so that the manufacturer could make a fully informed decision about the crash-avoidance algorithm's design, while remaining bound by the paramount obligation to protect public health, safety, and welfare.
Temporal scope
Throughout the risk assessment engagement
Relationships
competesWith
Engineer A AV Further Study Recommendation Before Deployment Obligation, Engineer A AV Moral Framework Public Transparency Recommendation Obligation, Engineer A AV Risk Assessment Third-Party Safety Consideration Obligation, Engineer A Autonomous Vehicle Do No Harm Obligation
defeasibleUnder
Competing Duties — Passenger Safety vs. Aggregate Harm Minimization, Engineer A Ethical Dilemma — Harm Allocation Recommendation, Passenger Safety vs. Third-Party Harm Minimization Algorithm Conflict, Present Case Regulatory Standards Vacuum for Autonomous Vehicle Ethics, Public Safety at Risk — Autonomous Vehicle Third-Party Harm
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A is a professional engineer working as a consultant to an automobile manufacturer that is considering the development of a driverless/autonomous vehicle operating system
Text references
Engineer A is a professional engineer working as a consultant to an automobile manufacturer that is considering the development of a driverless/autonomous vehicle operating system
TTL
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case165:Engineer_A_AV_Faithful_Agent_Informed_Decision_Enablement_Obligation a proeth:FaithfulAgentObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A AV Faithful Agent Informed Decision Enablement Obligation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case165:Engineer_A_AV_Further_Study_Recommendation_Before_Deployment_Obligation,
case165:Engineer_A_AV_Moral_Framework_Public_Transparency_Recommendation_Obligation,
case165:Engineer_A_AV_Risk_Assessment_Third-Party_Safety_Consideration_Obligation,
case165:Engineer_A_Autonomous_Vehicle_Do_No_Harm_Obligation ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/165#Competing_Duties_—_Passenger_Safety_vs._Aggregate_Harm_Minimization>,
<http://proethica.org/ontology/case/165#Engineer_A_Ethical_Dilemma_—_Harm_Allocation_Recommendation>,
case165:Passenger_Safety_vs._Third-Party_Harm_Minimization_Algorithm_Conflict,
case165:Present_Case_Regulatory_Standards_Vacuum_for_Autonomous_Vehicle_Ethics,
<http://proethica.org/ontology/case/165#Public_Safety_at_Risk_—_Autonomous_Vehicle_Third-Party_Harm> ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A serves as a consultant to the automobile manufacturer and is assigned to the engineering risk assessment team, creating a faithful agent relationship in which the engineer owes the manufacturer complete and honest advisory services within the bounds of professional ethics." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case165:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Within_Ethical_Limits_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_Consultant_Role,
case165:Informed_Decision-Making_Enablement_Obligation_Invoked_for_Automobile_Manufacturer_Client ;
proeth:discoveredincase "165" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T23:27:21.726838+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "165" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T23:27:21.726838+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Faithful Agent Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A, as a consultant to the automobile manufacturer, was obligated to act as a faithful agent by providing the manufacturer with a diligent, competent, and complete risk assessment — including all material findings about both harm-distribution frameworks — so that the manufacturer could make a fully informed decision about the crash-avoidance algorithm's design, while remaining bound by the paramount obligation to protect public health, safety, and welfare." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A is a professional engineer working as a consultant to an automobile manufacturer that is considering the development of a driverless/autonomous vehicle operating system" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the risk assessment engagement" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A is a professional engineer working as a consultant to an automobile manufacturer that is considering the development of a driverless/autonomous vehicle operating system" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 165 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T23:40:57.918839"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 165 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
165
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-27T23:27:21.726838+00:00
First case
165
Generated
2026-02-27T23:27:21.726838+00:00
Attributed to
Case 165 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T23:40:57.918839
Generated by
ProEthica Case 165 Extraction