Engineer A Transparency to Client
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/7#Engineer_A_Transparency_to_Client
Definition
Engineer A did not disclose the use of AI tools to Client W in either the report or the design documents, depriving the client of information material to evaluating the work product's reliability and the basis for the engineer's professional judgments.
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Report and design documents submitted to Client W
Balancing with
Client perception of professional capability
Competitive norms
Concrete expression
Engineer A did not disclose the use of AI tools to Client W in either the report or the design documents, depriving the client of information material to evaluating the work product's reliability and the basis for the engineer's professional judgments.
Confidence
0.86
Interpretation
Transparency in professional relationships requires engineers to be open about the methods and tools used to produce work products, particularly when those tools are novel and their reliability is uncertain.
Tension resolution
The principle was not satisfied: non-disclosure of AI tool use prevented the client from making an informed assessment of the work product's provenance.
Match Confidence
0.95
Match Reasoning
Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Transparency'
Matched Ontology Label
Transparency
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
Again, Engineer A did not cite the AI-assisted drafting tools they used to generate the engineering design documents.
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
Source text
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, including language to clearly identify that the supplied report was a draft, but applied their seal consistent with state law.
TTL
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case7:Engineer_A_Transparency_to_Client a proeth:Transparency,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Transparency to Client" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case7:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "Report and design documents submitted to Client W" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Client perception of professional capability",
"Competitive norms" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A did not disclose the use of AI tools to Client W in either the report or the design documents, depriving the client of information material to evaluating the work product's reliability and the basis for the engineer's professional judgments." ;
proeth:confidence "0.86" ;
proeth:interpretation "Transparency in professional relationships requires engineers to be open about the methods and tools used to produce work products, particularly when those tools are novel and their reliability is uncertain." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A AI-Assisted Design" ;
proeth:principleClass "Transparency" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The principle was not satisfied: non-disclosure of AI tool use prevented the client from making an informed assessment of the work product's provenance." ;
proeth:textReferences "Again, Engineer A did not cite the AI-assisted drafting tools they used to generate the engineering design documents.",
"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: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 0.95 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Transparency'" ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass <http://proethica.org/ontology/principles#Transparency> ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Transparency" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "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, including language to clearly identify that the supplied report was a draft, but applied their seal consistent with state law." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A did not disclose the use of AI tools to Client W in either the report or the design documents, depriving the client of information material to evaluating the work product's reliability and the basis for the engineer's professional judgments." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A did not disclose the use of AI tools to Client W in either the report or the design documents, depriving the client of information material to evaluating the work product's reliability and the basis for the engineer's professional judgments." ;
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