Engineer A AI Authorship Concealment
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/7#Engineer_A_AI_Authorship_Concealment
Definition
Engineer A made minor wording adjustments to AI-generated report text to personalize it and did not disclose AI authorship, effectively presenting AI-generated content as independently authored professional writing.
Properties
Instance of
IntellectualHonestyinAuthorshipPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#IntellectualHonestyinAuthorshipPrinciple
Applied to
Contaminant report submitted to Client W
Balancing with
AI Tool Disclosure Principle
Client perception of professional capability
Concrete expression
Engineer A made minor wording adjustments to AI-generated report text to personalize it and did not disclose AI authorship, effectively presenting AI-generated content as independently authored professional writing.
Confidence
0.87
Interpretation
Personalizing AI-generated text without disclosing its origin misrepresents the intellectual authorship of the work product. The client's observation that the report read as if written by two authors indicates the concealment was imperfect and material.
Tension resolution
The principle was violated: Engineer A's minor edits did not transform AI-generated content into independently authored work, and the absence of disclosure misrepresented the work's intellectual origin.
Match Confidence
0.75
Match Reasoning
Via class 'Intellectual Honesty in Authorship Principle': Intellectual Honesty exists in the ontology as a general principle. The AI authorship context is a specific and emergent variant that the existing class does not fully address, particularly the novel question of whether presenting AI-generated text without disclosure constitutes a failure of intellectual honesty. The match is a variant rather than a direct match, warranting a new class that specializes the existing principle for AI authorship contexts.
Matched Ontology Label
Intellectual Honesty
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
Engineer A also made minor adjustments to some of the wording to personalize the content.
Engineer A did not cite their use of AI-software or its large language models, and submitted the draft report to Client W for review
The Client commented that the report read as if written by two different authors but was otherwise satisfactory.
Source text
Engineer A also made minor adjustments to some of the wording to personalize the content. Engineer A did not cite their use of AI-software or its large language models, and submitted the draft report to Client W for review.
TTL
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case7:Engineer_A_AI_Authorship_Concealment a proeth:IntellectualHonestyinAuthorshipPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A AI Authorship Concealment" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case7:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "Contaminant report submitted to Client W" ;
proeth:balancingWith "AI Tool Disclosure Principle",
"Client perception of professional capability" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A made minor wording adjustments to AI-generated report text to personalize it and did not disclose AI authorship, effectively presenting AI-generated content as independently authored professional writing." ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:interpretation "Personalizing AI-generated text without disclosing its origin misrepresents the intellectual authorship of the work product. The client's observation that the report read as if written by two authors indicates the concealment was imperfect and material." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A AI-Assisted Design" ;
proeth:principleClass "Intellectual Honesty in Authorship Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The principle was violated: Engineer A's minor edits did not transform AI-generated content into independently authored work, and the absence of disclosure misrepresented the work's intellectual origin." ;
proeth:textReferences "Engineer A also made minor adjustments to some of the wording to personalize the content.",
"Engineer A did not cite their use of AI-software or its large language models, and submitted the draft report to Client W for review",
"The Client commented that the report read as if written by two different authors but was otherwise satisfactory." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 7 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-03T14:03:55.305980+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 7 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.75 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Via class 'Intellectual Honesty in Authorship Principle': Intellectual Honesty exists in the ontology as a general principle. The AI authorship context is a specific and emergent variant that the existing class does not fully address, particularly the novel question of whether presenting AI-generated text without disclosure constitutes a failure of intellectual honesty. The match is a variant rather than a direct match, warranting a new class that specializes the existing principle for AI authorship contexts." ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass <http://proethica.org/ontology/principles#Intellectual_Honesty> ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Intellectual Honesty" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "Engineer A also made minor adjustments to some of the wording to personalize the content. Engineer A did not cite their use of AI-software or its large language models, and submitted the draft report to Client W for review." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A made minor wording adjustments to AI-generated report text to personalize it and did not disclose AI authorship, effectively presenting AI-generated content as independently authored professional writing." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A made minor wording adjustments to AI-generated report text to personalize it and did not disclose AI authorship, effectively presenting AI-generated content as independently authored professional writing." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-03T14:03:55.305980+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 7 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 7 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
7
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-03T14:03:55.305980+00:00
First case
7
Generated
2026-06-03T14:03:55.305980+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 7 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 7 Extraction