Engineer A AI Report Attribution
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/7#Engineer_A_AI_Report_Attribution
Definition
Engineer A's AI-generated contaminant report did not include citations of pertinent documents of technical authority, and Engineer A did not disclose to Client W that AI substantially contributed to the report, failing the attribution and credit obligation under NSPE Code section III.9.
Properties
Instance of
AttributionandCreditPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#AttributionandCreditPrinciple
Applied to
AI-generated contaminant report
Balancing with
AI Tool Disclosure Principle
Intellectual Honesty in Authorship Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer A's AI-generated contaminant report did not include citations of pertinent documents of technical authority, and Engineer A did not disclose to Client W that AI substantially contributed to the report, failing the attribution and credit obligation under NSPE Code section III.9.
Confidence
0.88
Interpretation
Attribution obligations require both citation of technical sources synthesized by AI and disclosure of AI's substantial role in shaping the work product. Absence of citations undermines the professional record; absence of disclosure prevents the client from assessing provenance.
Tension resolution
The BER found that proactive disclosure of AI contributions and proper citation of technical authority were required for ethical use of AI in report preparation, and their absence rendered Engineer A's use of AI less than ethical.
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
AI, while not a human contributor, fundamentally shaped the report and design documents, warranting disclosure under Code section III.9.
Per Code section III.9, engineers are required to 'give credit for engineering work to those to whom credit is due,' so Engineer A's ethical use of the AI software would need to include appropriate citations.
The facts do not indicate the AI-generated report included citations of pertinent documents of technical authority.
Source text
Per Code section III.9, engineers are required to 'give credit for engineering work to those to whom credit is due,' so Engineer A's ethical use of the AI software would need to include appropriate citations.
TTL
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case7:Engineer_A_AI_Report_Attribution a proeth:AttributionandCreditPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A AI Report Attribution" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case7:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "AI-generated contaminant report" ;
proeth:balancingWith "AI Tool Disclosure Principle",
"Intellectual Honesty in Authorship Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A's AI-generated contaminant report did not include citations of pertinent documents of technical authority, and Engineer A did not disclose to Client W that AI substantially contributed to the report, failing the attribution and credit obligation under NSPE Code section III.9." ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:interpretation "Attribution obligations require both citation of technical sources synthesized by AI and disclosure of AI's substantial role in shaping the work product. Absence of citations undermines the professional record; absence of disclosure prevents the client from assessing provenance." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A Environmental Engineer" ;
proeth:principleClass "Attribution and Credit Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The BER found that proactive disclosure of AI contributions and proper citation of technical authority were required for ethical use of AI in report preparation, and their absence rendered Engineer A's use of AI less than ethical." ;
proeth:textReferences "AI, while not a human contributor, fundamentally shaped the report and design documents, warranting disclosure under Code section III.9.",
"Per Code section III.9, engineers are required to 'give credit for engineering work to those to whom credit is due,' so Engineer A's ethical use of the AI software would need to include appropriate citations.",
"The facts do not indicate the AI-generated report included citations of pertinent documents of technical authority." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 7 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "discussion" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-03T14:08:23.434917+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 7 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.0 ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting false ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "Per Code section III.9, engineers are required to 'give credit for engineering work to those to whom credit is due,' so Engineer A's ethical use of the AI software would need to include appropriate citations." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A's AI-generated contaminant report did not include citations of pertinent documents of technical authority, and Engineer A did not disclose to Client W that AI substantially contributed to the report, failing the attribution and credit obligation under NSPE Code section III.9." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A's AI-generated contaminant report did not include citations of pertinent documents of technical authority, and Engineer A did not disclose to Client W that AI substantially contributed to the report, failing the attribution and credit obligation under NSPE Code section III.9." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-03T14:08:23.434917+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
discussion
First discovered
2026-06-03T14:08:23.434917+00:00
First case
7
Generated
2026-06-03T14:08:23.434917+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 7 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 7 Extraction