Engineer A Ethical Dilemma — Harm Allocation Recommendation
Individual
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http://proethica.org/ontology/case/165#Engineer_A_Ethical_Dilemma_—_Harm_Allocation_Recommendation
Properties
Parent
Activeperiod
From assignment to risk assessment team through submission of recommendation
Affectedparties
Automobile manufacturer
Engineer A
Risk assessment team members
Third-party road users
Vehicle passengers
Concept Category
State
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Stateclass
Ethical Dilemma
Subject
Engineer A's obligation to recommend between two morally distinct algorithmic approaches, each of which causes harm to an identifiable class of persons
Terminatedby
Recommendation submitted to automobile manufacturer
Triggeringevent
Risk assessment team asked to recommend harm-allocation logic for unavoidable autonomous vehicle crash scenarios
Urgencylevel
high
Source Evidence
Source Text
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
Text References
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
having the car crash into a stationary object (e.g., telephone pole, etc.) with the probability of causing some passengers serious but non-life-threatening injuries instead of striking and potentially causing a fatal injury to a pedestrian, cyclist, or motorcycle rider
TTL
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Individual
Content Hash
9d1a9be2000d4424...Last Updated
2026-03-08 16:29
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
165
Discovered in Pass
1
Discovered in Section
facts
First Discovered
2026-02-27T23:23:14.080776+00:00
First Case
165
Generated
2026-02-27T23:23:14.080776+00:00
Attributed To
Case 165 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T23:40:57.912509
Generated By
ProEthica Case 165 Extraction