Engineer A Autonomous Vehicle Do No Harm Obligation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/165#Engineer_A_Autonomous_Vehicle_Do_No_Harm_Obligation
Properties
Instance of
AutonomousVehicleHarmMinimizationRiskManagementParticipationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#AutonomousVehicleHarmMinimizationRiskManagementParticipationObligation
Case context
The do-no-harm principle, identified as implicit in BER Case 96-4, is applied by the Board to the autonomous vehicle case to ground Engineer A's obligation to propose further study before deployment of an operating system with unresolved harm-distribution questions.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (Present Case — Autonomous Vehicle)
Obligation statement
Engineer A is obligated, in seeking to fulfill his ethical obligations as a member of the autonomous vehicle risk assessment team, to strive to do no harm in the performance of his professional services — including by ensuring that the autonomous vehicle operating system does not create foreseeable harm to passengers, pedestrians, or third parties that could be avoided through further study or technical mitigation.
Temporal scope
Throughout the risk assessment process and before any deployment recommendation
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Present Case Autonomous System Harm Allocation Design, Public Safety at Risk — Autonomous Vehicle Third-Party Harm
derivedFromPrinciple
Do No Harm Obligation Invoked by Engineer A in Autonomous Vehicle Case
Source Evidence
Source text
Implicit in Case 96-4 is the notion that in seeking to fulfill one's ethical obligations, engineers should strive to do no harm in the performance of their professional services
Text references
Implicit in Case 96-4 is the notion that in seeking to fulfill one's ethical obligations, engineers should strive to do no harm in the performance of their professional services
Similarly, in the present case, Engineer A has a responsibility to fully and actively participate as a member of the engineering risk management team
TTL
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case165:Engineer_A_Autonomous_Vehicle_Do_No_Harm_Obligation a proeth:AutonomousVehicleHarmMinimizationRiskManagementParticipationObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Autonomous Vehicle Do No Harm Obligation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case165:Engineer_A_AV_Faithful_Agent_Informed_Decision_Enablement_Obligation ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case165:Present_Case_Autonomous_System_Harm_Allocation_Design,
<http://proethica.org/ontology/case/165#Public_Safety_at_Risk_—_Autonomous_Vehicle_Third-Party_Harm> ;
proeth:casecontext "The do-no-harm principle, identified as implicit in BER Case 96-4, is applied by the Board to the autonomous vehicle case to ground Engineer A's obligation to propose further study before deployment of an operating system with unresolved harm-distribution questions." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case165:Do_No_Harm_Obligation_Invoked_by_Engineer_A_in_Autonomous_Vehicle_Case ;
proeth:discoveredincase "165" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T23:31:57.925931+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "165" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T23:31:57.925931+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (Present Case — Autonomous Vehicle)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Autonomous Vehicle Harm Minimization Risk Management Participation Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A is obligated, in seeking to fulfill his ethical obligations as a member of the autonomous vehicle risk assessment team, to strive to do no harm in the performance of his professional services — including by ensuring that the autonomous vehicle operating system does not create foreseeable harm to passengers, pedestrians, or third parties that could be avoided through further study or technical mitigation." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Implicit in Case 96-4 is the notion that in seeking to fulfill one's ethical obligations, engineers should strive to do no harm in the performance of their professional services" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the risk assessment process and before any deployment recommendation" ;
proeth:textreferences "Implicit in Case 96-4 is the notion that in seeking to fulfill one's ethical obligations, engineers should strive to do no harm in the performance of their professional services",
"Similarly, in the present case, Engineer A has a responsibility to fully and actively participate as a member of the engineering risk management team" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 165 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T23:40:57.924927"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 165 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
165
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-27T23:31:57.925931+00:00
First case
165
Generated
2026-02-27T23:31:57.925931+00:00
Attributed to
Case 165 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T23:40:57.924927
Generated by
ProEthica Case 165 Extraction